Call unto me, and I will answer thee, and shew thee great and mighty things, which thou knowest not. Jeremiah 33:3 God is ever inviting us to call upon Him. Our burdens are heavy. We are heavy ladened struggling to handle that which we are not designed to manage in our own capabilities. Then tragedy […]

The Magic Powder No one can say when the sickness first began in Madford, a small rural village, during the days when fairies still roamed the earth. It first affected the children then spread to all the adults until everyone was covered with open sores and lay in bed shivering from fever. The most able […]

If God's in His Heaven, What's Wrong with the World?

“God’s in His Heaven, All’s right with the world.” All’s right with the world. Really? Hmmm. That’s not what I was thinking! These familiar lines popped into my head as I was having coffee and my quiet time on the deck this morning. They are taken from a poem that was written by Robert Browning in […]

Red Sun in the Morning

From my journal, 6/6/23, 8 AM Today the sun is veiled with smoke and particulate matter that has migrated into my neighborhood from the Canadian wildfires up north. (That’s the meteorological explanation, courtesy of my weather app. ) My husband called me from the porch a short time ago, “Come outside, you’ve got to see […]

The Ugly Princess Once upon a time in a kingdom called Fair Meadows lived a king and queen who longed for a child but had none. They consulted all the physicians in their kingdom and when they saw no result they turned to herbal healers and after taking myriads of potions, still, they had no […]