Making Butter

5-3-15

There's an illustration from Rubel Shelly's Happiness Is... that I want to share with you. Let me tell you a story about two frogs. Their names were Optimist and Pessimist. They somehow managed to get stuck in a farmer's pail of milk and left overnight. At first they both swam, but Pessimist decided there was no hope and, as my husband says, went "glub, glub, glub." But Optimist didn't give up. He kept swimming and swimming. In the morning when the farmer looked in the pail, Optimist was sitting on freshly churned butter.

How Far You'll Go

4-25-15 

Influence is a funny thing. You can't see it or hold it, but it builds you into the person you are. For better or worse, everyone we meet and every event in our lives can influence us, sometimes minutely, and sometimes altering our futures.

Forgiveness Like Snow

4-11-15

This past winter, I got to experience snow. A lot of it. Maybe a little more than I wanted. On the positive side, I got some pictures and some thinking out of it. Snow is used as an illustration for forgiveness in the Bible. Isaiah 1:18 says, “…’Though your sins are like scarlet, They shall be as white as snow; Though they are red like crimson, They shall be as wool.”