Advertising Jesus

My husband and I recently placed a For Sale sign in our front yard.  We’ve spiffed up the yard by planting flowers and mulching the flower beds.  We’ve touched up paint, replaced flooring, and switched out light fixtures.  We are sprucing up the place.  It’s been our experience homes sell more quickly if they are staged, so we light a candle, set the table, play some music, and do our best to appeal to all five senses when perspective buyers enter our home.  We have something valuable that we want others to appreciate and be interested in.

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Getting Out of Here

I once had a dear friend named Ruth, who in her late 80’s sat enjoying a grilled steak one day, when she heard a radio announcer declare that barbecued meat wasn’t good for you. She stopped her beef-laden fork midway between her plate and her lips, paused for a moment in reflection, then shrugged her shoulders and said, “Oh well, I’ve got to get out of here somehow,” and popped the meat into her mouth and chewed with obvious delight.

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The Power of the Spoken Word

By Gina Stinson 

We’ve all done it. Said something we didn’t mean to say.  Whether we said it thoughtlessly or in anger, or even if it was said in jest, it just didn’t come out the way we intended it to.  And there were consequences—a friendship hurt, a relationship severed, a spouse’s silence, a child’s tears. Boy, if we’d only thought through the words we said out loud before we said them.

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Serving Real Butter

“Your life was saved by a miracle for a reason.” Ashley explained. A man who’d killed four people in an Atlanta courthouse shooting now held Ashley Smith hostage. As she gained Nichol’s trust he untied her and they began talking. Later she cooked him breakfast.
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Tumbleweeds

Tumbleweeds are nature's welcome wagon to New Mexico. It has taken me a while to understand how a tumbleweed tumbles! I've come to realize that it takes a certain set of circumstances to create a tumbleweed. First, the tumbleweed candidate has a shallow root system—not much anchoring the plant to the earth. Second, the shrub gets dried out, due to lack of moisture. Third, a high wind blows and uproots the bush, launching it on its way through fields, and across roads, until it eventually lodges in a fence row.
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