For the last two nights I have managed to wake myself up around 2:00 a.m. compliments of my hand scratching my swollen foot before I am awake enough to stop it from fighting with the histamines that are fighting with the melittin from the bee venom in my body. 🐝 + 🦶 = 😣 Like any good patient in the
As we headed out to pull four frames of honey from our beehive, my husband and I couldn’t have been further from our polar opposites in our personalities. I was fully dressed in my bee suit, ready to follow him across the pasture to collect our sweet reward for the first time after a year of tending to the bees.
Paul Harvey used to sign off his radio shows with the words, “Now you know…the rest of the story.” Proverbs 18:17 is a great filter for all things we hear and for reminding us of the need to get “the rest of the story” when we are told stories. It reads, “The one who states his case first seems right,
Earlier this week, I saw a lady crossing the road as I was driving home. On one arm she was balancing a bag full of leftovers from the restaurant kitchen where she works. On the other arm she was cradling a large jug of tea. In her hands she was holding a few small other odds and ends. While the
Pastor Marcus Bellamy kicked his “How to Study the Bible” class discussing the compilation of the Bible and different translations. Highlights from the lesson are listed below. *Bible translation entails reproducing the meaning of a text that is one language (the source language), as fully possible, in another language (the receptor language). *The original (source) languages of the Bible are
This evening, I volunteered to put together some food trays for an event a friend was having tomorrow. I already knew what I needed. I knew exactly where in the department store to go. I walked into the store on a mission, only to discover the shelves of plastic trays I was looking for first on my list were completely
Earlier this year we took on five baby chicks 🐣. It seemed like a great idea in the moment. Before it was time for them to move out of their cardboard box in the garage and into their coop, we had lost two of them. As the remaining trio 🐓 🐓 🐓 grew older, we moved them into their “penthouse”
What battle(s) are you facing, and how is your doubt in God’s plan for your life keeping you from being part of a bigger movement? That was the heart of Warren Gasaway’s sermon, “Climb the Hill” on Sunday at Trinity Baptist Church. What is a movement? Simply put, a movement is a group of people working together to advance a
“We marry our opposite and spend the rest of our life trying to change them. Who else can relate to that statement?” As I was teaching a workshop centered on personalities at a teacher in-service training this week, I asked the room that question. Heads nodded up and down and hands went up in agreement. I may have even heard
Recently, I picked up my daughter after work and headed home for one of those rare evenings where it was just the two of us. I had been looking forward to it all day, but something got in the way. My mind. An introvert, I spend way more time in my mind than I should. I even have a tick.
