Author: Jill

Inspiration

Not you again.

I love proverbs. They are short, concise pieces of wisdom that I can remember. I used to joke in elementary school, “Confucius say…” I don’t think I knew who Confucius was but I knew he said stuff. I believe around the time Confucius died, Sophocles, a writer of Ancient Greek tragedies, lived. If you read his material he could be considered the inventor of modern support groups. Now social media has MEMES and I love those suckers too. Except for when I hate them, they can dupe you. The type that I call “sound bite theology” are my least favorite....

Heartache

Utterance

“Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye are like unto whited sepulchres, which indeed appear beautiful outward, but are within full of dead men’s bones, and of all uncleanness.” Matthew 23:27 “Darlin’, you give love a bad name.” That song line has been running through my head for a few days now. And it is not because I listen to the “oldies” station, but I met someone online that encapsulates it so well. Normally I enjoy it when I get comments on my blog posts, whether a person agrees with me or not. Conversation makes me happy. However, a...

Inspiration

Say What?

What the what?  My brother-in-law uses this expression quite often.  I think it is because he doesn’t want to sound crass like me.  Whatever the reason, I love it.  It’s for those times when we witness someone saying or doing some odd thing and we just can’t fathom why.  Happens daily to most of us. I have three boys, whom I have home-schooled their entire lives.  They are now 21, 19, and 13.  I made quite a few Mom friends over the years and I can’t tell you the number of times I have heard the expression, “Why did he/she do...