Ecclesiastes Chapter 1, Verses 1- 11- Solomon & the Cycle of Life

I'm one of those people that like a book or a song better if I know some background history on the author. If I can find out about the character of the writer, I can understand the words better. In studying the book of Ecclesiastes on a self-guided process through 12 chapters, I was like …

Apologetics & Ecclesiastes

When I started working for a bible publisher, I heard the term "apologetics" for the first time. Then one of our youth pastors started studying apologetics and preaching. My mom never really cared for it or maybe it was the term itself she didn't care for. I think that's probably the only time I heard …

Impact

I noticed that I introduced you (my few readers) to my new daughter-in-law in a post from January. Well, if we are friends on Facebook, you might have noticed that the newlyweds made a surprise announcement and in October we have a little girl joining the family! We are all soooo excited. I'm been aching …

For the “Greats”

I'm working on 2 projects that need to be finished up within the next 2 weeks, overalls for my great-nephew and a table-runner for my great-niece. I've always wanted to do a double wedding ring, but never felt up to the challenge of getting all those curved pieces to come out right. However, Eleanor Burns …

The Stitches

I am not a quilter. The art of quilting is something I've been trying to master for several years now, about 30 to be exact. I started sewing at a very young age which is only natural since my mother was a seamstress, as was her mother and my father's mother. Both my grandmother's were …

The Stories, Introduction

For 30 years I've been writing stories and rarely have I shown any of them to anyone. I've always been an avid reader, starting as a young child. Our parents would read to us every night, a bible story. They had us enrolled in the Weekly Reader's Book Club and it was a joy to …

The Last Straw

How much straw had been put on the camel's back before one more piece broke it? What gets the most attention when that happens....that one piece of straw or all the straw that was there before? Who gets blamed...the camel for not being strong enough or those that were loading up the camel? I've been …