HeartStrings for Valentines Day

Cupid’s Arrow Write an ode to someone or something you love. Bonus points for poetry!   This is today’s daily post. I don’t really believe in Cupid. Some little fat dude with wings and arrows that shoots at you. Nope. Not real. I believe that love comes from God and He is the one who … Read more

Signs in the Heavens – Weekly Photo Challenge

  “And it shall come to pass in the last days, God declares, that I will pour out of My Spirit upon all mankind, and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy [telling forth the divine counsels] and your young men shall see visions (divinely granted appearances), and your old men shall dream [divinely suggested] … Read more

Second Fiddle

DAILY POST: FRAME OF MIND If you could paint your current mood onto canvas, what would that mood look like? What would it depict? Second Fiddle Song Description Living as a child with divorced parents is not always easy – especially when they both come to watch you play at a sporting event and sit … Read more

Seeds of Hope for Your Disappointments

UNSAFE CONTAINERS – Which emotion(s) — joy, envy, rage, pity, or something else — do you find to be the hardest to contain? Lately for me – the hardest one to contain is DISAPPOINTMENT. I find myself blogging about it more and more. And yet I know this is the field that God wants to … Read more

Memory Mist

DAILY POST – Memory on the Menu Which good memories are better – the recent and the vivid ones or those that time has covered in a sweet haze? MEMORY MIST Copyright 2014 Diana Rasmussen Water droplets Past and present coexist Foggy details Reminiscing Memory Mist

Your Love – He’s So Fine

DAILY PROMPT – He/She is So Fine What was it that drew you to your significant other? People said we would never make it.  We have both been married before – both had spouses who were not faithful. Both had given up on ever finding anyone to be with. Both had given up on love … Read more

Showdown at Big Sky – NaPoWriMo Day 22

The Robe   “Make the robe for the Ephod entirely of blue, with an opening for the head at the center and a hem on the edge so that it won’t tear. For the edge of the skirts make pomegranates of blue, purple, and scarlet material all around and alternate them with bells of gold—gold … Read more

How to Beat the Blues

Daily Prompt: Singing the Blues We all feel down from time to time. How do you combat the blues? What’s one tip you can share with others that always helps to lift your spirits? How to beat the blues? When that cloud of depression tries to follow me I have found I can run into … Read more

Crazy for Thinking I Could Change Him

Crazy. For thinking I was the Savior – that I could change someone’s behavior. Crazy for thinking it was all about me. Crazy for thinking things would get better when you live with an Abuser – when actually things were getting worse day by day. Denial is powerful. Especially when you have given away your … Read more

Against All Odds She Met Grace

The victim becomes the victor. The girl that got abandoned, betrayed, and abused becomes a Child of the King. Adopted by the King of Kings. Against all odds, she makes it. Why? Because God is with her. And she trusts Him. He delivered her. He came into the darkness and led her out. He didn’t … Read more

Putting it All on the Line

Daily Prompt: With or Without You Tell us about the time you threw down the gauntlet and drew the proverbial line in the sand by giving someone an ultimatum. If you’ve never handed out an ultimatum but secretly wanted to, describe the scene and what you would say to put an end (one way or … Read more

Rooted in Love with Shoelaces of Grace

Daily Prompt: It’s Friday, I’m in Love Remember your first crush? Think about that very first object of your affection. Oh, the sweaty palms. The swoony feeling in your stomach. Tell us the story of your first crush. What was it about this person that made your heart pound? Was the love requited? Change the … Read more