? ? My son is engaged! Matthew popped the question to his beautiful Rebecca at our Smoky Mt. cabin last week. No date yet but we’ll keep you posted! Copyright Your Blog Name 2012 at DeboraCoty.blogspot.com
The Party’s Over
Just got back from a wonderful, relaxing week in the Smokies where Spouse and I saw no less than 7 deer, 2 foxes, a gazillion chipmonks (a rare treat for us Floridians) and a few elderly squirrels. Not exactly like this one – most used canes instead of walkers. As an extra treat, we had ...
A little spiritual refreshment
Enjoying a girls day at the beach for fun, food and Bible Study with my spiritual sisters a few weeks ago. Okay, back to my series of Scripture meditations from my personal spiritual retreat. This one is from Zephaniah 3:17, CEV: The Lord your God wins victory after victory and is always with you. He clebrates and sings ...
If You Can’t Fix it, Decorate it!
I didn’t know the neighbor at the far end of my walking route, but I felt badly for them. One night during the sweltering summer months, someone had backed into their brick mailbox stand, toppling the top half of the four-foot-high monument adorning their front yard. Apparently too heavy to remount, the beheaded portion stood akilter alongside its ...
His Voice
This is the second of a series on my meditations of scripture during a recent personal retreat. Today’s passage: 1 Kings 19:11-12: The still, small voice of God. 1. “Go stand on the mountain” was a command to take action; GO! Stand alone, exposed and vulnerable; wait on the Lord to come to you. You’re in His ...
The Best Gift is a Sacrifice
This post is the first of a series sharing insights that I encountered about various scriptures on a personal spiritual retreat I enjoyed this summer while all alone for a week in our remote Smoky Mt. cabin. (If you’ve never invested yourself in a spiritual retreat, I HIGHLY recommend it!) My technique was to take one passage per day, ...
Stress Happens
Such a marveous weekend! Crazy busy, but marvelous nonetheless. That’s not to say there weren’t glitches, but hey, all’s well that ends well, right? I’ve come to realize that stress happens no matter how well thought out or planned-to-the-hilt an event is. I co-directed the Florida Inspirational Writers Retreat at Cedarkirk in Lithia on Saturday, ...
Picky, Picky
For lack of table space, I laid out all the fixings for eight gift baskets on the floor of my office … a cute little scarecrow for each, flavored tea bags, floral stationery, various writing supplies, and a ceramic fall mug filled with chocolate Kisses, Godiva gems, Baby Ruths, Nestle Crunches, Butterfingers, Dove dark chocolate-caramel ...
Come As You Are
I’d just finished pouring a cup of water over my head and another down my shirt after sweating out two sets of singles in 93 degree heat. Sounds messy, I know, but us diehard tennis players who stubbornly insist on playing through central Florida summers do it often to prevent heatstroke. If you’re already slathered ...
Now I get it.
As a writing late bloomer (I started writing professionally at age 45), it never ceases to amaze me how many people think they can just jump in and write a book without doing their homework. I spent three years researching, writing articles, attending writing conferences and consuming every industry how-to I could get my hands ...