Five Minute Friday – Belong

It’s Five Minute Friday and I am joining Lisa-Jo Baker and other FMF girls to write flat out for five minutes. No editing, no polishing, and then linking up together. I am loving this challenge! I hope you enjoy it too! Check out what Five Minute Friday is all about...

Next Stop – Writing Blog Hop

My school year had just ended leaving me in a post-school, glad it's summer haze. I was gearing up to go on vacation to the beach for a week with family. Amidst the craziness, in popped an email titled "Blogging Opportunity". You know it piqued my interest because...

God’s Beautiful Garden

A little over a week ago I was at the beach soaking up the sun, relaxing and savoring the time with family. As part of the week, the adults decided to visit the Elizabethan Gardens on Roanoke Island, NC and the experience was stunning.  Each pathway revealed trees...

Five Minute Friday – Exhale

It’s Five Minute Friday and I am joining Lisa-Jo Baker and other FMF girls to write flat out for five minutes. No editing, no polishing, and then linking up together. I am loving this challenge! I hope you enjoy it too! Check out what Five Minute Friday is all about...

Day is Done

With the setting of the sun - day is done! Darkness blankets the earth and wraps all in its warm embrace Stillness and slumber envelop us and a peaceful calm fills our beings We rest and fall asleep to the promise of a new day - a new dawn! Our country was built on...

Broken But Beautiful

Summer vacation has begun... Promises and dreams of lazy days, fun with friends and family time. Schedules are forgotten - instead pool time, barbecues, suntan lotion, lightening bugs and a day of play are the only agenda items that should be on the minds of all kids!...

Five Minute Friday – Release

It’s Five Minute Friday and I am joining Lisa-Jo Baker and other FMF girls to write flat out for five minutes. No editing, no polishing, and then linking up together. I am loving this challenge! I hope you enjoy it too! Check out what Five Minute Friday is all about...

You Are Able

One of the greatest compliments you can receive is to see the reflection of yourself in someone else. The reflection that mirrors your life is God-focused. The reflection that empowers others  to be the best they can be! This reflection enables others to live their...

Finish Well

One more week to go Five more days with my 3rd graders Memory books and field day interspersed with the cleaning and storing of this year's materials will mark the week and take us home All the above mark the passage of time and the end to a year well-lived or does...

Five Minute Friday – Hands

It’s Five Minute Friday and I am joining Lisa-Jo Baker and other FMF girls to write flat out for five minutes. No editing, no polishing, and then linking up together. I am loving this challenge! I hope you enjoy it too! Check out what Five Minute Friday is all about...

What If …

What if my humble home, my story, my words spilled out on a page, touched one person? Would I write? Should I write? What if my own grace-filled passage - my journey - reminded one person that God is real and His mercies are new every morning? Should I continue to...

Grace Gifts

Another week is in the  books - seven days to celebrate or seven days to reflect on how we made it through. Another week to look back, pause and give thanks  before looking ahead to what is coming next. As another school year winds down and the proverbial light can be...

Five Minute Friday – Nothing

It’s Five Minute Friday and I am joining Lisa-Jo Baker and other FMF girls to write flat out for five minutes. No editing, no polishing, and then linking up together. I am loving this challenge! I hope you enjoy it too! Check out what Five Minute Friday is all about...

Soul Searching

He was next in the lunch line waiting patiently for his turn to travel down the silver line and pick up his tray of school lunch goodness Peering up into my eyes, his gaze pierced down into my deepest depths He locked his unwavering eyes on mine - brown on brown - and...

Five Minute Friday- Close

It’s Five Minute Friday and I am joining Lisa-Jo Baker and other FMF girls to write flat out for five minutes. No editing, no polishing, and then linking up together. I am loving this challenge! I hope you enjoy it too! Check out what Five Minute Friday is all about...

Hi, I’m Mary!

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I am a retired elementary school teacher and the mom of two grown sons.
I’m also a woman seeking God in the ordinary routines of life.
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