He Walked with Me Through

The book is now available on Amazon.com

 These last few weeks have been pretty busy with my eyes glued to a computer screen doing the last edits and formatting on my 1st book called, “He Walked with Me Through”.  On Friday, Dec. 16, 2022 it went live (available) on Amazon.  

    This is the story of Todd’s accident, TBI, and the bizarre life that followed for me, struggling through being a caretaker, and then later a widow.  Even though it’s not a happy story, I still hope it can bring hope to the reader.  Even through the darkest times, God can walk with you.  We don’t always get delivered out of the darkness, but He always promises to walk with us through it.   Then as we take one step at a time through the dark valley, we make progress towards the light and the beauty again.

   I’ve dreamed for years of writing and publishing my writings.  It didn’t just happen, I had to make it happen, and do the work, but the dream has come true.  I’m still dreaming.  I have at least three more ‘books’ floating around in my thoughts, and working on getting them down on paper.  

    Thanks for reading!

   

My Gramma Drives a Jeep

My three teachers who give me "Grandma Lessons"

 My Gramma Drives a Jeep

My Gramma drives a Jeep, 

I think that’s pretty neat

She tow’s it behind the big RV

For the country she does see.

She travels all around 

Singing songs about our Lord

She opens up the Word of God

And on it, she does expound.

But just the other day

She parked it not far away

Said she wanted to take some time

To get to know her little tribe.

  

So all winter I get to see

My Gramma who drives a Jeep and RV

I get to hug her around the neck

And she can play games with me 

My Gramma drives a Jeep,

I think that’s pretty neat.

Cat Hair in my Coffee

  I looked down to my cup of coffee and saw that all too familiar  thing.  A cat hair.  An all too familiar reminder I’m living with a long-haired fuzzy fur ball in a very small living space.  No matter how much I clean, and roll the lint rollers, there’s cat hair on everything.  Grace.  

       She’s also my alarm clock every morning.  If I’m not up by 5:30, she jumps on top of me and begins her massage somewhere on  my body, most of the time in an area I’d prefer not to have a cat massage.  If I try to roll over onto my tummy to have her massage my back, she just jumps off the bed.  If I some how manage to stay in bed after the 5:30-Tic-Toc-Kitty-Alarm-Clock, she’ll come and insist my hands were made only for petting her, as she pushes her nose under my hand, trying to get me to pet her.  In her mind, what else are hands for,  but to pet her.

    She’s not all bad, she has her purr-ffect moments, when she crawls up in my lap when I’m watching a TV show, and lays there in contentment and purrs.  There’s something so soothing about a cats purr.  It just echos contentment.  I think maybe I should curl up in my Saviors lap more often and just lay there in contentment and purr knowing that He’s got this all together, and has a great plan for my life, all I have to do if follow where His hand guides me.

    So as I fish the cat hair out of my coffee, I just have to say thank you Lord for a little fur-ball friend who sometimes reminds me to just be content.

     “I don’t say this out of need, for I have learned to be content in whatever circumstances I find myself.” Philippians 4:11 and Hebrews 13: 5 “Let your conduct be without covetousness; be content with such things as you have. For He Himself has said, “I will never leave you nor forsake you.”

    Being content, it’s becoming a lost art in our society.  Give it a try today.

Check Mate

     

My very excited redheaded grandson with a slight speech impediment tried so hard to explain to me how to set up my chess pieces to play this daunting game.  He was especially excited because he had just gotten this chess board that day on his sixth birthday.  He loves to play games.  He loves the challenge and loves to compete against anyone willing to play with him.  Now his gray haired Grandma sat across from him totally bewildered as I listened to him explain what to do.  He tried to tell  me where each piece went and then declared, you go first because you're white.   My only problem was I had no idea what or where each piece could do, or move.  So I moved a pawn one square.  His next move was strategically moved  across the board.  I moved a piece and he said I had captured one of his pieces.  I bewilderedly removed it from the board.  In the next move he declared 'checkmate.'  He had won.   I had no idea why or how, but he said my king was cornered and I was in check mate, and he was declared the winner.

    He was mostly excited because he had just beat his grandma in chess, this old lady was an easy opponent, but to him, she was an adult and he had won game.  Little did he realize that this Grandma didn't know even how to play, so winning was a given for him.

    I thought about other games in life I've been thrown into, without knowing the rules.  My opponent knew how to play, and was eager to do me in, but I was clueless, and was fumbling along.  Had I had prior instruction before playing I may have stood a chance in winning, but no rules were explained, I just had to jump in and play, and often times ended up loosing.  Education!

    In the game of life, it's always beneficial to learn the rules and strategies before proceeding too far.  We were given a rule book to play by.  The Bible has even been called "Basic Instructions Before Leaving Earth."  Learn from the one who created the game.  He knows every move we can make and should make to win and He's eager to tell us how to play the game, because He wants us to win.  All we have to do, is read the instruction and listen to His voice, as He explains the next move to make.

     II Timothy 3:16-17 "All Scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness, that the man of God may be complete, throughly equipped for every good work."   In II Timothy 2:15 is says, "Study to show thyself approved unto God a workman that needs not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth."      Lets dig into God's Word to find the right way to win at this game of life.    For it's His Word that lights up our path, and shows us where go.  Psalms 119:105   

  I think I’ll study on some chess rules and moves too before playing my grandson again.  It would be beneficial for both of us if I did.  He’d actually have an opponent then, and I might stand a chance winning.