Hopeful Hearts

I heard it said that when you wake up you have two ways to greet the day. A) Good morning, Lord!❤️ B) Good Lord, it's morning!???? It made me laugh when I heard it but it really stuck with me. We do have two choices and whether we say those words, say other words or...

Sparkling Smile. Not a hair out of place. Makeup looking professional. Dressed in designer clothes. Kids could be junior models. Husband holding you close in affection. Background of pix looks like it came straight out of Beautiful Home Today. Cheeeeeese. SNAP.  All...

Molly. Felicity. Josefina. Kirsten. Kit. Addy. American Girl® Dolls. These were the names of some of the first American Girl dolls that I remember.   Our daughter, Morgan, loved her Molly doll.  She took her everywhere.  She slept with her, watched TV with her and...

There he was in the middle of the road. Neck stretched like a toe in a pair of pantyhose. His four short, stubby legs carrying that hard shell across the heated blacktop. Slow and steady. I drove on the other side of the road to avoid him.  I looked in my rear view...

Have you ever cried? I mean really cried.  Hard core, loud, let-it-all-out, ugly kind of cry?  The kind where you think "I'm not going to cry until later" and then one little tear escapes out of the corner of your eye; the lump in your throat feels like a stuck...

iPad. iPod. iPhone. Mac. Dell. Thinkpad. Google. Yahoo!. Firefox. All this technology makes my head spin. But it also makes my vision blurry. Do your eyes ever get tired and burn with blurred vision from staring at a screen too long? If you think about it, our eyes...

It's morning. I can hit the snooze or get up now. I can eat a  donut or fix some protein-filled eggs. I can read my Bible or watch an episode on Netflix. I can get to work on time or be a "usual" 10 minutes late. I can lay out something for dinner or plan to swing...

Bill and Tom set out for another fishing adventure.  High hopes were in the air that the fish were biting this time.  These two had a reputation for returning home empty-handed from a day of fishing.  But it didn't stop them from days of laughter and celebration of...

Alarm buzzes.  Covers fly off.  Mind starts roaring. I don't know about you but every day this seems to be the routine for the day.  Why can I not stop thinking and stressing about what's coming next?  Are you like that? It's almost like I wake up and think "now what...