Barb's Best

O to grace how great a debtor Daily I'm constrained to be! Let Thy goodness, like a fetter, Bind my wandering heart to Thee. Pr...

I awake at 2 am needing to go to the bathroom. The dogs are in a deep sleep around me, evidenced by their loud snoring. I gently extricate m...

I unplug my curling iron and toaster as fire safety precautions. I unplug my cell phone charger for economic and environmental reasons, to...

When I was employed, Sundays were the hardest day of the week for me. It was the day when I was most alone, left to my own thoughts. It was ...

"And why are you anxious about clothing? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow: they neither toil nor spin,yet I tell you, ev...

Why do I believe the words of dis couragement that I tell myself more readily than the words of encouragement? Why do the encouraging words...

It's been said a picture is worth a thousand words, but pictures of me never match the thousand words that I think they should. Picture...

2002/2003 was a difficult time for me. The church I attended went through some terrible times and I felt it necessary to leave. My employe...

It's no secret that there are a lot of children in my life, though none of them belong to me. I often blog about the Barblings . As ex...

I appreciate a hot bath more when I'm cold to the bone. I appreciate a cool shower more when I'm dirty, hot and sweaty from working...

life's autumn days filling time with "to do" list waiting for the end

Dedicated to the Kriebel Family Blessed be the tie that binds Our hearts in Christian love. The fellowship of kindred minds Is like to that...

" Let everything that has breath praise the LORD!" Ps 150:6 As I was reading this the other day, I thought about those things ...

The calendar may show it's still winter, but according to my dogs, spring has sprung. This is evident by the constant twitching of thei...

My biological clock is ticking loudly. I hear the tick-tock everywhere - at the grocery store when I see a mother pushing a cart with a chil...

It's not even noon, yet and so far today I've picked up around the house, shoveled the sidewalk, ran an errand outside the house and...

I am drawn to books and articles that offer solutions to life's problems in "x" number of steps. Clear and concise instructio...

My favorite verse from my favorite Hymn: : "Pleased as man with man to dwell, Jesus, our Emmanuel." What more can be said.

It's amazing how changing the emphasis on certain words, changes the meaning of the sentence. "The Lord giveth and the Lord taketh...

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