dianarasmussen

"Prayers and Promises" is a blog by Diana Rasmussen, which can be found at https://www.dianarasmussen.com. The blog focuses on faith, spirituality, and finding hope in difficult times. Diana shares her personal experiences and insights, offering prayers and promises from the Bible to encourage and inspire readers. The blog covers various topics such as prayer, healing, forgiveness, and overcoming challenges. It serves as a source of encouragement and support for those seeking spiritual guidance and a deeper connection with God.

Daily Prompt: Ripped from the Headlines!

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DAILY PROMPT: Head to your favorite online news source. Pick an article with a headline that grabs you. Now, write a short story based on the article. Truthfully I don’t read much online news. It’s too depressing.  So and so killed this person, the economy is going downhill, this country is at war with this … Read more

Weekly Photo Challenge: Illumination

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Weekly Photo Challenge: Illumination

We will magnify what we look at, are you seeing the “good”, or the “bad”? As a man thinks in his heart, so he becomes. What are you looking at and thinking about today?

http://dailypost.wordpress.com/2013/01/11/lights/

Clean Slate

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Daily Prompt:   Explore the room you’re in as if you’re seeing it for the first time. Pretend you know nothing. What do you see? Who is the person who lives there? Hmmm, this is interesting.  Kinda an old farmhouse, cute, quaint.  Let’s see what goes on here.  So this is the living room, the … Read more

Take Two

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DAILY PROMPT: Take Two Run outside. Take a picture of the first thing you see. Run inside. Take a picture of the second thing you see. Write about the connection between these two random objects, people, or scenes. Ok, I kinda put the pictures together…This swing is outside our front door, we are blessed to … Read more

This is Your Life

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Daily Prompt If you could read a book containing all that has happened and will ever happen in your life, would you? If you choose to read it, you must read it cover to cover. When is the last time you went to the movie theater? (or theatre, depending on where you live!)  Remember the person … Read more

When the healing didn’t come.

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Thank you for helping me understand…

32 FLAVORS

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DAILY PROMPT: Vanilla, chocolate, or something else entirely? Hands down, it’s gotta be chocolate for me. Chocolate, a girls best friend, the one PMS medicine that works, and a wonderful “take me away” food.  Plus, trying to justify myself here, dark chocolate is  high in antioxidants, it may help lower your blood pressure, and it increases the endorphin’s in … Read more

1984

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DAILY PROMPT: 1984  You’re locked in a room with your greatest fear. Describe what’s in the room. I close my eyes, and remember a time, when I was frightened… I don’t know if I am going to live or die today.  It is so dark but the air is so heavy.  Wait…I can feel that black spirit … Read more

A Word a Week Photo Challenge: Clouds

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OK, I’m kinda a cloud junkie…there, I said it! I am just in awe of God’s workmanship and beauty!  I am constantly taking cloud pictures. My daughter even does it now, she sees God in His glory too! This was taken right outside our door in WI.

Psalm 57:9-11

Amplified Bible (AMP)

9 I will praise and give thanks to You, O Lord, among the peoples; I will sing praises to You among the nations.

10 For Your mercy and loving-kindness are great, reaching to the heavens, and Your truth and faithfulness to the clouds.

11 Be exalted, O God, above the heavens; let Your glory be over all the earth.

A Word A Week Photo Challenge: Clouds

Teacher’s Pet

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Daily Prompt: Teacher’s Pet Tell us about a teacher who had a real impact on your life, either for the better or the worse. How is your life different today because of him or her? I wish my head wasn’t so hard. I wish I didn’t have to run into the brick wall before I … Read more

Clouds

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Clouds

I used to live on a hill overlooking a BP gas station.

Remember the April 20, 2010 Oil Spill in the Gulf?

A Word A Week Photo Challenge: Clouds

Helpless

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DAILY PROMPT: Helplessness Helplessness: that dull, sick feeling of not being the one at the reins. When did you last feel like that –- and what did you do about it? This was a hard year for our family, a year of enduring.  My husband ‘s mom passed away this past January  Then, we had fun … Read more