Goin' back a few years and just before Valentine's Day. Remember writing letters? And S.W.A.K.?   Father, you are Love. You wrote the book on love and everything else to do with it. Help us to love deeply like you do. In the Name of Jesus, Amen.

               I've kind of set aside Mondays for book reviews. Not today. I probably won't review the novel I'm currently reading. Not terribly fond of the heroine or the writing. The mystery is adequate but the characters don't make it compelling. The author has decided she doesn't need apostrophes,…

     "No one knows about the day or hour, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father. As it was in the days of Noah, so it will be at the coming of the Son of Man. For in the days before the flood, people were eating and drinking,…

                    Five things that make me smile: Our dog The view out our kitchen and living room windows: Mt. Rainier and the country Happy dogs (and happy animals) And our frogs singing! Hearing the Lord's voice (if it doesn't make me cry 😉 ) Horses   …

                         (Originally posted on June 20th, 2010, as "Committing an . . . Act of Treason".) Consent to Kill by Vince Flynn left off with Mitch Rapp’s version of justice, an ending which brought me to tears and displayed some of Vince Flynn’s best writing to that point. In Act of Treason we pick up…

   I found this clever and amusing. Good job, Haribo.   Father, thank you for laughter and fun. Nothing more fun than a good laugh. Please help us to have a "merry heart that does good like a medicine". In the Name of Jesus, Amen.

       An unconventional voice, Joe Cocker covered many tunes and made some of them better than their original recordings. Very talented man who eventually straightened out his life.   Lord, thank you for celebrating the least of us, giving us talents and gifts. Apart from you, we can do nothing. In the Name of Jesus,…

                               Kristen Smeltzer has written a stunning account of a particular trial with one of her three sons while he was in high school that led to a reassessment of who she truly believed God is, was, and will ever be.…

I, even I, am he who blots out   your transgressions, for my     own sake.   Isaiah 43:25 (NIV)

                           Five questions for you: What is the ratio of your reading fiction to non-fiction? (Ten to One? One to Ten? etc.) What kind of story is your favorite? (i.e. thriller, cozy mystery, suspense, western, romance/love story) Do you read biographies? Where is…