Author Archives: Gigi

Study to Be Quiet

        {Wildflowers picked for a tea table, set out for a Grandmother visit}       11And that ye study to be quiet, and to do your own business, and to work with your own hands, as we commanded you; 12That ye may walk honestly toward them that are without, and that […]

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150 Pounds of Blueberries!

  If you happened to come by my home for a visit recently, you just be asked to sit on the front porch while I served up some hot (or iced?) tea and some homemade blueberry pie.     You see, this past week, I was blessed to attain 150 lbs. of blueberries! I do […]

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A Home of the Angels

“Ask the little child what is home? You will find that to him it is the world — he knows no other. The father’s love, the mother’s smile, the sister’s embrace, the brother’s welcome, throw about his home a heavenly halo, and make it as attractive to him as the home of the angels. Home […]

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A Cheerful Heart

“God bless the cheerful person – man, woman or child, old or young, illiterate or educated, handsome or homely. Over and above every other social trait stands cheerfulness. What the sun is to nature, what the stars are to night, what God is to the stricken heart which knows how to lean upon Him, are […]

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When a Normal Day is a Gift

“The secret of contentment is the realization that life is a gift, not a right. Next to faith this is the highest art – to be content with the calling in which God has placed you.” – Martin Luther   The wind ruffled the lace curtains that covered a somewhat dusty window… I walked my […]

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