Author Archives: donsimba1

Flickers startle us with their color patterns. Here one samples our sunflower seed.  We enjoy feeding the birds, that is for sure.  Never gets old!

Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name, your kingdom come, your will be done on earth as it is in heaven. Give us today our daily bread. Forgive us our debts, as we also have forgiven our debtors. And … Continue reading →

Pray without ceasing.  Give thanks in every circumstance, for this is God’s will for you in Christ Jesus. I Thessalonians 5:17, 18 A blessed and necessary word of God for me this morning.  Pray always in everything.  Not necessarily for … Continue reading →

For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother’s womb.  I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that full well.  My frame was not hidden from you … Continue reading →

The time has come for setting up a regime to arrest the blood, etc., problems I have been carrying.  When I look at the list of things they are checking, my head spins.  It is all another language to me.  … Continue reading →

What more could I have done for My vineyard that I did not already do in it?  Why, when I waited for it to yield good grapes, did it bring forth sour fruit? Isaiah 5:4 I read this sad word … Continue reading →

Our hearts were truly blessed as our friend, Paul Burkholder, entered the warm embrace of his Lord.  It was all very sudden.  He suffered a stroke from which he did not recover.  Paul was a brother in the Lord who … Continue reading →

As Winter closes in, our small fish ponds take on a different look.  The pin oak leaves from a tree at least fifty yards away love it here, obviously.  As they form on branches in the Spring, they are pure … Continue reading →

“Come now, let us reason together, says the Lord: though your sins are like scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they are red like crimson, they shall become like wool. “ Isaiah 1:18 Yesterday, a week before … Continue reading →

We thought we could keep on top of our cleaning – at this advanced age!  But common sense directed us to hire two lovely sisters from the White Oak Church of the Brethren where he have friends.  This was thier … Continue reading →