I love Christmas. I love everything about Christmas. So tonight, not being able to stand any more outdated Thanksgiving cheer, I turned on s...

It's odd what people remember about you when you're gone. Take, for example, what we remember about Laura Ellen Pearson Caviness and...

I will give You thanks with all my heart; I will sing praises to You.... and give thanks to Your name for Your lovingkindness and Your truth...

They didn't have a door to welcome them home. Not even a door. So I'm reading this book about the years leading up to the first Than...

I don't care what it looked like, what size it was, or where you got it. It doesn't matter if it cost you the world or cost you noth...

I was thinking today about banners. Strange thing to think about, I know. It's just that I drive past this quaint country church every m...

It was a dark and stormy night. (Or, it could have been. It was dark anyways.) Okay. So... it was a dark and not-stormy night. Last night. I...

OhgoshOhgoshOhgosh... Freeman House finally has a bath! You couldn't find a happier person right now. Or a cleaner one. After bathing ou...

"Whether you turn to the right or to the left, your ears will hear a voice behind you, saying, "This is the way. Walk in it."...

Autumn is my favorite. There's something about the fall that grabs me every year. Maybe it's autumn's stillness - the way trees...

Waiting, waiting, waiting. All my life, I've been waiting for my life to begin, as if somehow my life was ahead of me, and someday I wou...

If I was a true optimist, I would call it an "adventure". If I was a poet, I'd call it my Wanderjahr ... my time spent wanderi...

  Ah, the knitted, round cloths. These are a staple at Freeman House- so much so that I've begun calling them House Helpers . I use ...

When I admire the wonders of a sunset or the beauty of the moon, my soul expands in worship of the Creator. -Mohandas Gandhi I was looking a...

So... um... gosh! A lot's happened since we were last here, huh? Israel's in a rapidly-escalating war. Campisi's was voted the ...

I have a headache today. The kind of headache that parks itself between your eyes and threatens to punch its way out through your peeper-soc...

Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence. -Abigail Adams, 1780 There's someth...

From the ends of the earth I call to You, I call as my heart grows faint; Lead me to the rock that is higher than I. -Psalm 61:2-3 The view ...

It's a sure sign of summer if the chair gets up when you do. - Walter Winchell Ah, summer. Within the next calendar week we'll be h...

'For My thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways My ways,' declares the Lord. 'As the heavens are higher than the e...