My calendar has been stacked since last Tuesday. I’m just now able to come up for air.  I thought retirement meant time to savor experiences rather than stack them one on top of each other in a huge pile like the one I’m tackling in this post.

My priorities include, in this order: God, family, church activities, writing, music, reading, then the mundane house stuff and other relationships.

This week, all of them claimed my “undivided” attention. It’s been a…..

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Create in me a clean heart, and renew a right spirit within me. Scripture is always a good place to start.

We are beginning a new women’s Bible study on Tuesday with a group of ladies as church. It’s focus is not just maintaining and growing our own faith, although that is always my purpose, but in opposing Satan’s attacks because we doing that very thing. I am becoming aware through looking at this material, that Godly people can and…..

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As we enter the new year, it’s all too evident there are financial concerns, there are struggles of inequality and hatred which have always been present, there are wars and rumors of wars, there is concern about health care, the food supply, and the role of government, and everything else. But, there is also the confidence that God is with His people, that Christians throughout the world are praying for deliverance, that resources are available to us provided by His…..

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