The featured photo above is the home that my parents built in 1970-71. I was 11y/o when I, my 2 brothers, and parents, moved to Brookeville, Maryland, on 8 acres, overlooking Tridelphia Lake. Those were wonderful years that I look back on fondly. We have…
A new pastel painting that I completed today. 9×12 Soft Pastels on Art Spectrum Pastel Paper. It’s been quite the transition for me and my family, as we embark on building our last home in the mountains, but I am of the adage that anywhere…
Sarah’s Sermon at Etowah United Methodist Church, Etowah, NCDecember 31st, 2023 Advent is the season of waiting and anticipation.Christmas is the dawn breaking into the deep darkness, a light dawning, and our long awaited hope fully becomes realized in the face of a baby lying…
Recently, I posted Proverbs 1:7 on Facebook. If we reflect on this scripture, it can leave us puzzled as to why we should “fear” the Lord our God, and what, exactly, is the purpose of this “fear” and why does He want us to “fear”…
Advent is the freedom found in the invitation to hope when all that is around you is darkness, and yet you believe light is coming. To look forward and see the light before it dawns, so that when it does, we can proclaim with Isaiah,…
Here we are bringing another year to a close, it all goes by so fast I’m afraid to blink anymore. But here we are, thinking about 2024 and what the year might bring – and how we can survive the inundation of political ads and…
By Morgan Harper Nichols The sun is still rising,the wind is still blowing,and out here in the wild,you are growing. And there might be dayswhere you might struggle to feel it’s true,and you might struggle to trustthat here in the wilderness,there is more ahead of…
He sleeps. My grandson Sam loves when grandma (that’s me) comes over to play and take care of all his needs while his parents go to work. My daughter, Sarah, and her husband, Matt, are both in Ministry. Sam just turned 1y/o and has a…
Lemon Tahini Dressing. Yummmmmmy! You can’t go to the Olney Ale House in Olney, Maryland, without ordering a salad with their Lemon Tahini Dressing. Sadly, they don’t ship it, or I’d be ordering a case of it to be sent to North Carolina. That dressing…