by Jeanie Shaw | Oct 22, 2011 | Devotional Thoughts
In “My Morning Cup” there is a paragraph about a particularly persistent purple pansy. In the chapter entitled “When I Sit in the Backyard” I write: One of my favorite backyard stories teaches me perseverance. One cold February day after the snow had partially...
by Jeanie Shaw | Oct 15, 2011 | Devotional Thoughts
Sometimes life moves at a challenging pace. The past several weeks have been particularly swift and challenging; thus, my lack of recent posts. Amidst all of the family drama over the past few weeks (much of which I have previously written about), a week ago our...
by Jeanie Shaw | Oct 4, 2011 | Devotional Thoughts
This was the view out of my bathroom window last week. It was a quick view, as I had to cut short my trip. I held on to this picture in my mind, as the magnificence of this snow-covered mound of rock took my breath away. Since this time I have thought of this image...
by Jeanie Shaw | Sep 29, 2011 | Devotional Thoughts
As you may have noticed I’ve been away from home this week. The day before we left my friend, Vanessa, who lives with us pointed out a few small, yellow, worm-like caterpillars on the kitchen ceiling. Disgusted with their presence, and being a bit of a neat-freak...
by Jeanie Shaw | Sep 27, 2011 | Devotional Thoughts
My daughters and I talk on the phone at least once a day. I love talking with them. We talk about fun things with the kids, hard things, simple things as well as deep things in our hearts. We laugh, cry, or just enjoy each others company. It’s important to us...
