Tag Archives: Patience

The farm my dad was raised on during the years of the Great Depression didn’t have indoor plumbing, but it did have two beautiful apple trees in the front yard that gave the best yellow delicious apples ever. So enticing was the fall bounty that Dad would climb the trees ...

I have vivid memories from the first home I remember as a little girl.  On summer evenings I would look for butterflies in our front yard. They seemed to flutter around the large tree that shaded our house as the last dappled sunlight fell. I loved a rainy day.  Mom ...

We all live in a fast paced world where everybody is in a hurry to get where they need to go. We want everything right now. We go shopping and pick the fastest lane to check out. When was the last time you took time to stand still to focus ...

They met in 1930 at a Halloween masquerade ball. He was 20 years old and had already been working for the local utility company for four years. She was a 16-year-old high school student, living in a dormitory many miles from her family’s farm. They fell in love and decided ...

“Truly God works in mysterious ways. The wheels of His mercy and justice move quietly, but they do move.”   Billy Graham Built into the human spirit is a quest for justice. Many have given their lives to the service of justice, but the path to that end is long ...