The age old question: Is your cup half-full or half-empty? Your answer is supposed to determine whether you are an optimist or a pessimist. While it may be an entertaining argument, the real question is why is your cup half full? Psalm 23:5 says, “Thou preparest a table before me in the presence of mine…
Author: lindablyle
Dust Bunny Wars
Due to unforeseen events (aka people coming over), I felt compelled to tackle a task I had been procrastinating…dusting. Not to mention the dust bunnies seemed to be forming an alliance that suggested a hostile attack that even my three cats were not likely to survive. It was time to go to battle. I started…
Enriched
In school I actually enjoyed the vocabulary assignments where you are given a list of words to look up in the dictionary, write out the definition in your workbook, and then use it in a sample sentence. I loved learning new words or additional meanings to words that I already knew. This love of mine…
Rattled
What do a hairball, palmetto bug, the USPS, and the IRS have in common? They teamed up together to rattle me. I had never really considered the definition of rattled until I was watching a video that goes along with the Bible study Psalm 23: The Shepherd With Me. Jennifer Rothschild defines rattled as “thrown…
Trust and Obey
Trust and Obey is a song I have sung in church since before I can remember. It’s as familiar as a favorite sweater, but because it is so familiar, it is easy to overlook the words. It is even easier to overlook the meaning of the words much less how they should work out in…
The Power of Naming
When a little bobble-headed, tuxedo kitten showed up in my yard howling for help, I picked her up and felt ribs. She hissed when her feet left the ground but by the time she reached my shoulder she was purring like an Italian sports car. It took less than a week to realize she…
Message from God
I often hear people say that they want a word from God. The problem is not that God isn’t speaking; the problem is a failure to communicate. The communication process requires two parts: send and receive. The website Skills You Need gives the following diagram to explain the communication process: In 1 Samuel 3:10 we…
The Surety of Adversity
“Divine comfort is given that a man may be stronger to bear adversities. And temptation followeth, lest he be lifted up because of the benefit.” – Thomas A’ Kempis I was listening to a CD of devotionals and heard an excerpt from Priscilla Shirer. She was repeating something I had heard her say in the…
A Little Distance
Sometimes a little distance is a good thing. Sometimes when you are working on a knitting project or a writing project or in my case both at the same time, you sometimes need to take a break and walk away so that you can get a fresh perspective. However, there is the danger of going…
Be Still
I was working on a knitting project late one evening and found what looked like a dropped stitch. Past experience taught me that trying to fix things when I’m tired only leads to more problems, so I used a stitch marker to hold it in place and put it away. I was frustrated because I…