By the Grace of God, is a more than just a good interjection! (With a little help from my friends!)

I hear many pontificators speaking lofty words and thinking and discussing the events of the day ie. Chris Christie and Warren Buffett this week.
 As we have become one with each other in a political self governing country, we must hold each other accountable that our words take the big picture into consideration. I will give myself to do what I can do to do and be a betterment to my family and then the world about me.  I won't shut my eyes to the problems inside and outside my home.  I won't isolate and not participate.
 God bless those whose responsibility it is to use their finances to do more than talk. God bless those who pray for what they see in God's Word is the will of God for our nation and our communities. God bless those whose governing sets out a course of rectifying the distresses that we have inherited. By the Grace of God, I will be true to my intentions. I will see and pray and give and direct toward God's glory and not just my own comforts! My brother, perhaps your intentions are above you, we are thinking as we hear debates and sermons about the intentions of great talkers. My sister, your words are here and your actions don't match and we pray, Lord don't let lofty intentions lead my sibling away from all intents and purposes, in lostness or insanity. That is how I feel when I see a young mother. You are limited and you are totally engrossed in your intentions, but what we do when we feel them above us is the litmus test.
Let it go?  What happens then?  Perhaps we give up too easily.  Let us hold each other up in prayer and in commitment to agree to help one another in the follow through...Could we?
Might we?

rendering by Ben 2003 That is who Binnie was to me, not just mom's friend.  She was an example of somebody, who was at my wedding and seeing her reminded me, verbally and otherwise the easiest way to keep this vow is to hold on tight!  Everytime I saw her, she showed me her priorities in keeping the vows that she had committed to.
  I felt blessed to know her priorities and see her working them out.  Life is not all spiritual, she showed, there are earthly components of your spiritual vow and these are mine, she said.


May God comfort her family at her loss.  She showed me that she kept it and I could too.

 We are going to miss you like crazy!

We've Come This Far By Faith

Just As I am, without one plea...

Be Magnified, Oh Lord!

Find it on the Wings!

Well....We lost, where's the emoticon to show that emotion?

Of all of the emoticons and emojis and whatnots, no words, good or bad, can put a bandaid on a State.   We, NC inhabitants, transplants and visitors and friends saw a wonderful thing happen, the rise of hope, from the ashes of defeat.
   We had and still have an enormous sense of comradery that those fellows gave to us.  Thank you Panthers for performing through the season so excellently that we held your coattails into the Super Bowl.  You put us on the map of hope and excellence.  We love it and we love you for doing so very well this whole season.
Enjoy your well deserved vacation and you better do the same at least next year...

Remembering a wonderful trip we made before we were parents.

We took a 14 hour drive out to the western part of Pennsylvania, with baby Elyse, just brewing in my belly. I was nauseous as could be and complaining all the way out there. But the very first view of an eagle taking off from the ground before us, as we drove, shut my mouth for the rest of the trip.This view will remain in my minds eye. It was as breathtaking to me as the outside of the Fallingwater House.That beautiful round red pot in the living room and the tree trunk coffee table were accents that made me want to know more about the architect F.L. Wright and the family that let him into their lives, the Kaufmans.

I am enamored by the beauty of the quilts made for African American History month---profiled in the NYT

Please clic on the link and enjoy them also!