REFRESH OTHERS WITH LOVE!

It's a new month!

May all be done in the LORD'S love to Refresh others!

SNOW DAY COMETH!

WINTER WEATHER ALERTS!

Our news forecast for ice, snow with gusty winds and COLD temps have continued for over two weeks.....but mostly avoided us! 

UNTIL TODAY!

Snow as seen from our side door and outside our great room window.....

......and it continues!

Another season of weather....a bit like season's of life. Up and down!

Be as prepared as you can for seasonal struggles and the "winters" of life. 

Trust God, who is control of all our elements, for the results of all the snow days that cometh! (Psalm 74:17)

FRIDAY JANUARY 30, 2026 6:58 PM CST

Elnora Williams

March 2, 1942--January 30, 2026

A Jesus Lover

Elnora---a part of our family since December 1978!

Elnora in 1980 with our youngest.

Dearly loved by so many for so long. Sorely missed! 

Resting in Peace! (Isaiah 57:2, NCV)

A few fave pix from all my Thursdays with Elnora.

 

 

 

BLURSDAY--THURSDAY!

I don't know if it's plaque on the brain, age-related or the COLD Winter Weather alert for the past week, but I rarely know what time it is or what day it is! Thanks to Renee B. & my squad, I have been receiving pix lately that give me reminders. Grateful for those early morning hints! I pray for my daily folks before I even get out of bed.

Today, I was very late getting to my prayer chair and noticed that my "Word A Day" was still on Monday. I knew it wasn't Monday but after that my memory was a bit hazy! "Word A Day" was a gift from "My" Molly who understands both my memory lapses as well as my "grammarian bent" of love for words and their usage.

Voilà!!

There it was! Who doesn't know what Blursday is!

How grateful I am to be able to laugh at myself and all my maladies!

As it says in Ecclesiastes 3:1, there is a time for every matter under the sun. Today at my house there was building up, laughing and dancing!

Glad you could join me!

TUESDAY TRAUMA!

WHY?

WHY so many Potential Scams in less than 24 hours?

Why bother to even check the phone when it rings?

Are the elderly targets?

I know Scripture advises us not to lose heart. (2 Corinthians 4:16)

I'm weary with fear of being hacked! I'm wanting life the way it once was as I recall my mother saying! Even Ecclesiastes 7:10 advises against doing that.

So.....I repent of my fear and pray for the Lord to forgive me and sustain me with His truth!

Even to your old age and gray hairs I am He, I am He who will sustain you. I have made you and I will carry you; I will sustain you and I will rescue you. (Isaiah 46:4)

Even if I have to repeat the process again and again---

I am grateful God hears my cries for help.

TRUST GRAMMATICALLY!

Today, we go to sign our wills AGAIN! A redo of our wills for at least the 3rd time. We had hoped to set up a "trust" but in this itty bitty town that can't happed.

However, I am more focused on trust as a verb. 

A verb that emphasizes faith in action!

Trust God in all times and in all ways. Acknowledge Him daily to guide your paths. Trust leads to straight paths.

Continuous Action = grammatically correct trust.

SATURDAY SHORT: RHYMING!

STAY FAITHFUL AND GRATEFUL TO HIM!

If rhyming helps to remember---use it!

F-F-FRIDAY F-F-FRIGHT!

Severe Winter Weather Alert!!

A friend's prediction......

SURELY NOT!!

A Friday Funny, maybe!

Hoping it'a time to laugh....not a time to weep! (Ecclesiastes 3:4a)

DANCE TO THE MUSIC!

Listen to the Music!

Dance to the Music. 

Take a Rest! Repeat!

A musical rest is part of emphasizing the music melody. Even in the melody of life, rests are important.

He (God) brings a sudden pause in the choral hymn of our lives, (L.B. Cowman, p. 44)

God has THE plan for the music of our lives!"Our part is to learn the tune and not be discouraged during the rests." (John Ruskin, paraphrased, https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/1207851-there-is-no-music-in-a-rest-but-there-is)

Don't avoid the rest; it's an important part of making the music!

True for a pianist. True for an orchestra and true for all of life's songs and melodious hymns!

SEARCHING FOR THE SACRED

Many understand how difficult it can be to move away from the home, street, town, state, and church called home for 46+ years. 

Familiarity is a thing of the past.

But God in His love and mercy has been easing me into this new place of grace allowing me to sense His Presence anew. It has become a place of grace with new joys at every turn.

Today, unloading more books, I came across a devotional book, autographed, no less! 

As I started thumbing through it, I became aware of its emphasis on seeing everything as special. 

Think God-filled. Not ordinary! 

Sacred!

Scripture is interwoven with creation's unlimited beauty, prayer and relationships---sounds like a hope-filled life to me.