Fresh Bread

 
That’s it!  I keep hearing so much lately about homemade bread…I’m breaking out my stainless steel bread bowl…the one that’s all pock marked with dents from marbles being whirled around in it back in the ’80s. 
 
Is there a better fragrance in a home in the fall? 
 

 
I love the feel of working with the dough…kneading by [...]

CRITICAL NEED FOR PRAYER!

 

 
At this very moment, there is a critical need for prayer for the safety of our troops in Afghanistan.  Whether or not you feel we should be there is not the issue.  God is waiting for us to cry out to Him for HIS intervention.  He knows what needs to happen and it needs to happen [...]

Introducing David Lunsford – Cheerleading Series

 
If you know me at all, you know that when it comes to things and people I’m excited about, I’m a cheerleader.  I just can’t keep good news to myself.  Why would I want to?  lol  
 
A week ago,  I was blessed to see and hear  musician, singer, songwriter, David Lunsford.  If you love Praise & [...]

Oxygen for Your Soul

 
 
I’m just curious.  Has anyone NOT heard of Susan Boyle yet?  I understand it’s had around 16 million hits already, and I wish I could include a YouTube video of her here, but apparently those videos have had the embed disabled.  Still…
 
 - If you want to smile…
 
 - If you love seeing the “underdog” triumph…
 
 - If you love witnessing [...]

Sitting, Prepping, and Savoring

 
Woke this morning with a song playing in my head – “We Have This Moment,” by Gloria Gaither.  The chorus:
 
                                     We have this moment to hold in our hands
                                     And to touch as it slips through our fingers like sand
                                    Yesterday’s gone and tomorrow may never come
                                    But we have this moment, today. 
 
It’s precious.  Take [...]

Good Tidings of Great Joy!

 
 
 
 
“Composer George Frideric Handel was bankrupt when in 1741 a group of Dublin charities offered him a commission to write a musical work.  It was for a benefit performance to raise funds to free men from a debtors’ prison.  He accepted that commission and gave himself tirelessly to work on it. 
 
“In just 24 days, Handel [...]

Favorite Words – And a Winner!

 
Yesterday, Ruby Red Slippers http://lionstigersandboysohmy.blogspot.com/ posted a review on the upcoming movie, “Yes!” starring Jim Carrey – in theatres December 19th.  Reading her post reminded me that I have certain favorite words.  I know that may sound crazy, but, I do.  HOPE is one of them.  I have a synthetic, fist-sized rock on my desk engraved [...]

A Must-Have Christmas CD – Giveaway!

 

 
I am too new at blogging to know how to download music yet.  But there’s a CD that you just have to hear – “A Christmas Dream.”   It is absoloutely dreamy.  Robin Berry, a harpist, and two other musicians, Bobby Schnitzer (guitar) and David Young (recorder) have put together one of the most captivating instrumental Christmas CDs [...]