Prayers Blog Posts
Bluebonnets and Larkspur
April has come and gone with its multitude of celebrations, whether Easter or family birthdays all clustered together. Both of my boys, now 46 and 47, were born in April in a small TX county hospital. What I remember about coming home to the parsonage in Morgan, TX...
The Trauma Olympics
One of my coping skills for dealing with chronic pain is visualizing specific others who are walking through trauma that is way beyond my imagination. If I see a news story about refugees fleeing their country with nothing but the clothes on their backs I say, "At...
It’s Not Too Late
It's not too late to plant your seeds, whether those you've harvested from last year, or the ones you've purchased in those cute little colorful packages. This year, I received seeds as a favor from a baby announcement and I spread them out in a full sun spot. They're...
Old-fashioned Strawberry Shortcake
All of us "Graham girls" feel at ease entertaining; I guess because my mom taught us by osmosis. We each had our rotating roles in the kitchen. She taught us things like: if you're baking, double the recipe and put the extra in the freezer, use fresh ingredients which...
The Answer To Your Ancestor’s Prayers
One of our favorite shows to watch is Finding Your Roots on PBS. Recently, a phrase that one of the participants repeated often was,"be the answer to your ancestor's prayers." I scrambled for a scrap of paper to jot it down before I forgot it, which these days, I...
Oh, So Easy Pumpkin Bread
On a cold and wet winter afternoon, I do love a cup of tea around 4:00 in the afternoon with a little something not too sweet, but just sweet enough. I find that a slice of pumpkin bread is just right. This recipe is so easy and it makes two loaves, one for the...
Migrants for Dinner
Have you ever watched little kids playing soccer or basketball during their first years of attempting a team sport? No matter how much you might instruct them about playing their positions, they all flock together like a gang of hornets dive bombing towards a common...
Don’t Throw Yourself Away!
Because I grew up in the church attending Sunday School, Worship, and Midweek Bible Study, when I hear scripture verses quoted in the defense of specific moral superiority or sanctimonious "rightness," my eyes glaze over and my hearing gets muffled. Therefore, with...
Minestrone Soup
February is perfect for trying out new soups. I found the following recipe in an old Community Cookbook called The Cotton Country Collection, a gathering of tried and true recipes by the Junior Charity League of Monroe, Louisiana in 1972. Even though it is not an...
January Gardening, A Look Back
You've heard me say before that my garden is my healing place, whether I'm in it, or dreaming about it. In January, as all the seed catalogs are coming in, the perennials have died back, the trees have lost their leaves, and bare ground has been thoroughly mulched...