As dyed-in-the-seersucker Floridians, we don’t usually get many winter opportunities to wear socks with our flip flops, knit beanies, long sleeves, or even jackets. But YAY! The past few weeks have dolloped a wad of cold weather on us down here. Besides the frozen iguanas raining on our heads and catatonic gators we have to ...
V is for Victory
I sincerely hope you and yours celebrated the birth of our Savior with happiness and holiness dear BFF (Blessed Friend Forever)! My holiday took a strange and unexpected twist. A bit of background first: You may recall that I’ve been diligently working all year on a new 365-day devotional that was contracted to be completed ...
Managing Stress-pectations
That most wonderful time of the year is once again here and many of us have already built up great expectations (nod to Dickens) for these holy days we call holidays. Amid the lavish decorations, yummy cookies, and countless rolls of wrapping paper, we vow to keep our Messiah in a manger front and center ...
It’s Tradition!
So here it is, December, the jumping off place for my Just Do it Debbie Diet, my unorthodox and slightly eccentric weight management program that I self-inflict during the first two months of each year. If you are a faithful blog-follower, you may recall that every January 1, I stop eating everything yummy and force myself to ...
I’m Addicted
During my early morning dog walks with Laz the Resurrection Dog, I cross paths with a neighbor who usually walks his feisty chihuahua the same route we do but in the opposite direction. The dogs like to exchange bark-greetings. Strangely, this morning, my neighbor – not a guy who, by his miserable “My wife made ...
Age is Only a Number
Since I’ve had two knees replacements this year, I seem to be dwelling on parts of me I never noticed before. Dang, they ache. Who would’ve thought that one nickel-sized spot on the backside of your knee could feel just like a donkey sounds when it brays? I stumbled across an excerpt from my book ...
Growing through Suffering
Lately I’ve been doing a personal Bible study on suffering. I kinda stumbled into it after rereading The Five Silent Years of Corrie ten Boom, by Pamela Rosewell (first published in 1986). It’s a thought-provoking and faith-building account of the last five years of one of my all-time faith heroes, Corrie ten Boom, as she was ...
Hope Blooms
Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you’re likely aware of the two hurricanes that recently slammed Florida. Now I’ve lived in Florida since the day I was born and have rarely witnessed the scale of devastation caused by first cat 3 Helene and then Milton, right on her coattails. Before we recovered from one, ...
Praying for Hurricane Helene Victims
Hi dearest BFFs (Blessed Friends Forever), I hope that you are all safe and sound following last week’s unexpectedly damaging storm. I want to thank all of you who prayed, called, emailed, and in any other way were concerned about me and my family during Hurricane Helene. We had a lot of tree debris down, ...
We All Kneed a Little Love Sometimes
Well, the bad news is IT HURTS AS TERRIBLE-AWFUL-BAD AS THE FIRST ONE! Another revelation: I’ve turned out to be a whiny baby in my sweetly matured state (old age). I used to be a tough young broad and now I’m an old squealer every time I rise to my feet (accompanied by a lot ...