Friday, January 25, 2013

Canal Park this Week

It has been my goal this winter to share on Facebook photos that showed that winter could be beautiful. I did it for myself because winter is my least favorite season. I was so pleased that so many local photographers shared their photos this season on FB. I feel so blessed!













Thursday, January 24, 2013

What a Comfort!

This blessed me today and I wanted to share it with those I love!

Friday, January 18, 2013

Retirement Party for Eileen and Barbara

We had a wonderful party today to celebrate Eileen Sugars and Barbara Eckenberg's retirement from St. Luke's hospital. The first picture is the group of us who worked together for many many years in the cardiac intensive care unit. We had quite a team, and still have such affection for each other!!

Carol, Ardis and Toni in front. Janet, Kris, Barb, Diane, Ann and Melodee in the middle and Clint, Rick, Wayne, Susan and Eileen in the back.

Clint and Roxie Mattson were our hosts today at their lovely home in Maple, Wisconsin

These gals are gloating because they are all retired! Ardis, Bonnie, Barb, Eileen and Melodee

Yea for these good friends Eileen and Barbara!!Good nurses who can now enjoy this new phase of their lives!
Rick and Eileen

Saturday, January 12, 2013

Phil and Denise visit!

This is Hope age 11 and she has an unbelievable imagination!
 

Phil, Denise, Hope, their friend Preston and Laura.
Preston joined us for dinner one night here, Nice guy!

Phil and Denise~

Laura is a freshman at North Central Bible College

Foggy January morning at Canal Park

Dinner here one night with Toni, Denise and Susan standing
with Phil, Hope and Laura, always a fun time, we share so many
memories~
Phil and Denise are on iteration~ raising funds to go back to
Crimea, Ukraine as Assembly of God Missionaries where their goal is to establish a church planting movement among the unreached Tartars in
Eurasia. A tragic history becomes a hopeful future for the Tartar people. May God Bless your efforts. To
learn more go to www.thereedreport.info
Phil is my first cousin, once removed and we have had a special relationship since he was a young boy!

Monday, January 7, 2013

One Solitary Life

ONE SOLITARY LIFE
He was born in an obscure village
The child of a peasant woman
He grew up in another obscure village
Where he worked in a carpenter shop
Until he was thirty

He never wrote a book
He never had an office
He never went to college
... He never visited a big city
He never travelled more than two hundred miles
From the place where he was born
He did none of the things
Usually associated with greatness
He had no credentials but himself

He was only thirty three

His friends ran away
One of them denied him
He was turned over to his enemies
And went through the mockery of a trial
He was nailed to a cross between two thieves
While dying, his executioners gambled for his clothing
The only property he had on earth

When he was dead
He was laid in a borrowed grave
Through the pity of a friend

Twenty centuries have come and gone
And today Jesus is the central figure of the human race
And the leader of mankind’s progress
All the armies that have ever marched
All the navies that have ever sailed
All the parliaments that have ever sat
All the kings that ever reigned put together
Have not effected the life of mankind on earth
As powerfully as that one solitary life

by Dr. James Allen 1926

Friday, January 4, 2013

My Day at Brighten Beach

Lovely, sunny, winter day on Lake Superior! 38 degrees on January 4, 2013! I love this lake that God has blessed me with!!















Tuesday, January 1, 2013

Happy New Year

 And in all things, may you know the shalom peace of God—encouraging you to move forward, empowering you to boldly take each step, greeting you as you turn a new corner, calming your heartbeat as you walk through dark valleys, softening each footstep as you climb rugged mountains, and increasing your courage as you follow your Shepherd wherever He leads.


You crown the year with a bountiful harvest; even the hard pathways overflow with abundance. The grasslands of the wilderness become a lush pasture, and the hillsides blossom with joy. Psalm 65:11-12 NLT