Look to God and Live… Joyfully!

The second week of Advent focuses on preparation. The scripture for this theme is from Isaiah 40:3-5: The voice of him that crieth in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the LORD, make straight in the desert a highway for our God. Every valley shall be exalted, and every mountain and hill shall be…

When I was a child I loved to read the book Pollyanna by Eleanor Porter. In a nutshell, for those who don’t know the story, it is about a young orphan girl who always plays the “glad game” where she looks for something in literally any situation to be happy about. Her attitude and persistence…

Today is the first Sunday of Advent. Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday, probably partly because it is the gateway to the wonderful Christmas season. I love the music and overall feeling of this time of year. Can you blame me? As I’m writing this I’m listening to music by Leslie Bricusse from his show Scrooge…

The other day Toby was acting strange (not that that’s exactly new, but this was a different kind of strange). Anyway, he kept coming over to me, whimpering, and then he started getting in trouble in a different kind of way. Then Sunny started in. She whimpered and paced and licked me and paced and…

This past week has been an emotional one. As a church music lady I attend a lot of funerals and I was asked to lead the music at the funeral this week for a wonderful woman who was 81 years old. She lived an amazing life, bearing 11 children (losing two of them when they…