A long time ago, I would do a lot of hiking and mountain climbing with my husband Bill. We also would climb rocks--big ones--for "fun." He enjoyed that much more than I did but one climb I'll never forget was one clear, spring day more than twenty years ago now.
I want to study more about my future abode in heaven. There are more and more people in heaven now than when I was younger. I look forward to meeting them again, but what honestly sounds the sweetest to me is that God promises to live with us there.
At last, our climb leader shouted in the thin air, absorbing his voice so it sounded like a whisper declared, "Congratulations! You've made it to the top!"
December Bride: A woman who marries when she is significantly older than most brides. I was a December bride, just as the definition above describes.
And only this time of the year, when the sun comes through, it touches an arrangement of flowers on a coffee table.
We are grieving. Things feel out of control.
I'll never forget it," I said. I continued my tale that happened twenty-some years earlier...
The miracle of having a relationship with God is so simple.
For and hour and a half, we waited, wondering if we'd need to stay there all night until the storm abated.
Monuments and statues, skyscrapers, castles, and cathedrals capture our attention, but I think creation by a Creative God is even better.
