by Carole Duff | Sep 15, 2025 | Faith, Nature, Writing and Reading |
Pick a flower, cucumber, berries—um, maybe leave these small, tart cranberries on the viburnum for the birds. A pick in basketball or football—even a pick six. The picks we’ll examine today are more fundamental choices, major decisions in the spiritual realm. Pick:...
by Carole Duff | Sep 8, 2025 | Faith, Family |
The word legacy does not necessarily appear in scripture, depending on the translation, but the concept does, usually in the word “inheritance,” as in Proverbs 13:22a NIV quoted in the title. With that indulgence, let’s explore what legacy means. The legacy of God’s...
by Carole Duff | Sep 1, 2025 | Faith, Writing and Reading |
Last week, I looked behind, viewing 8mm family films from the early-to-mid 60s when I was between the ages of ten and sixteen. I saw my parents, grandparents, sisters, aunts, uncles, cousins, many now empty chairs. The girl I was couldn’t see the woman she would...
by Carole Duff | Aug 25, 2025 | Faith, Writing and Reading |
Opposite: adjective, noun, adverb, preposition. Let’s take a look at the noun in a play, Tom Stoppard’s Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead. Actors: the opposite of people “We’re actors – we’re the opposite of people!” states The Player in Tom Stoppard’s...
by Carole Duff | Aug 18, 2025 | Faith, Writing and Reading |
1973 college graduation 2001, last Texas Christmas 2024, our calling With this in mind, we constantly pray for you, that our God may make you worthy of his calling, and that by his power he may bring to fruition your every desire for goodness and your every deed...