Category: Psalm prayers

Don’t you just love the books written by J.R.R. Tolkien? It is hard to pin point exactly why many of us are absolutely enthralled with the literary genus of his work… it’s not just the writing style, which is exquisite, but perhaps it could be the themes within the writing … For me, I love…
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I love to travel! I might as well admit it. I love to travel. Admitting this secret desire is hard for me and I am not sure exactly why. I do know that my family would attest to my itchy feet, despite my blindness of the desire. But thinking about it now, whenever I hear…
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A very long time ago, when just starting out and learning how to master the art of caring in nursing, I was extremely fearful. There was so much to remember. How does one integrate theoretical practice, pathophysiologic processes of the body, sickness… illness and therapeutic social interaction all at the same time? Overwhelming really, to…
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“Love… twue love is what bwings us togevher today” (Movie quote, Princess Bride; 1987) Don’t you love that line and the movie, for that matter? One of our pastors’ recently reminded us of how great this movie was and still is. And he is right, “Princess Bride has to be one of the greatest movies…
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I think last week it was, I shared that I had been reading, The Hiding Place. If you haven’t read this book before, it is the life story of Corrie ten Boom and her family who lived before and during World War II. In 1939 Corrie ten Boom was 47 years old and lived with…
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I love animals… I always have and over the years, I have enjoyed the companionship of a menagerie of child hood pets, my living “lovees”. I have loved cats and dogs… budgies and cockatiels… guinea pigs, chinchillas, mice, and hamsters… sheep, jumping, popcorn baby goats, horses and feisty, rabble-rousing open-all-the-stalls-and-door-to-the-grain room, pony. This deep love…
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“What a day for a daydream… what a day for a day dreamin’ boy. I’m lost in a daydream. Dreaming bout my bundle of joy”… Do you remember that old song, sung by The Lovin’ Spoonful? Singing about daydreams is a fairly common theme, as I found out when I was looking up the lyrics…
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When I was a little girl of maybe 4 or 5, curiosity almost did me in. It happened on a lovely summer afternoon while camping in the Sierra Nevada Mountains. Our campsite was chosen by my grandfather and it was gloriously pristine and beautifully breathtaking. Almost virtually isolated from the outside world of mankind, we…
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Whenever I read Psalm 104, I can’t but be reminded of Sonnet 43, written by the Victorian poet, Elizabeth Barrett Browning. Both pros are simply lovely to read, intensely passionate, and provide such creative descriptions, that it is no wonder we breath in deeply, holding in each word, until nearly bursting, and at last collectively,…
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Yesterday, no the day before, I received some shocking news. When bad news comes, we never expect it, don’t want it, and hope disparately that it isn’t true… a mistake, yes, yes, it has to be a mistake. Please let it be a mistake… But after the initial jolt, undoubtedly, my first reaction is FEAR.…
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