A hearty THANK YOU I send to every single one of you who had a part in the "Decade of Celebration, 2002-2012"!!! I thank GOD for your presence, your words, your non-verbals, your prayers, your email, your cards, your notes, your thoughts, your remembering, your going-out-of-your-way...I give thanks for you! Here are the words on the front of a [...]
Lately, I've been working with my editor/ghostwriter in Cincinnati, "burning the midnight oil" as we've shaped my manuscript and made it ready to be passed on to my publisher. As I have read lots of stories related to the wreck of June 18, 2002 and all the days that followed - written by people from all walks [...]
* July 20 - "Straight Talk with Patti" interview with Rosa Blum, Holocaust survivor; Dallas, TX * July 22 - Emmanuel Baptist Church; Corsicana, TX * July 22- Women of Purpose; People's Church; Jacksonville, TX * August 7 - Magnolia Luncheon; Hope Clinic; Waxahachie, TX * August 9 - East Texas Police Academy; Tyler, TX [...]
This week, I wanted you to have before you the words of this particular song, "Jacob's Song" ... Sometime ago, Debbie, an ETBU (East Texas Baptist University) student wrote these words for Jacob and his battle with TBI -- a life-long fight that was set into motion during a drowning accident... Jacob's Song Sometimes there's just no way to explain it all; And we question: [...]
Stand fast therefore in the liberty by which Christ has made us free, and do not be entangled again with a yoke of bondage. (Galatians 5:1; NKJV) Hmmm, "liberty" and "entangled." These two words don't seem to exactly go together in our minds. But, I suppose, when we choose to stand-up for something we believe in, [...]
Q: What is being woven together with the threads of your life? My life is but a weaving Between my Lord and me; I cannot choose the colors, He worketh steadily. Oft times He weaveth sorrow, And I, in foolish pride, Forget He sees the upper, And I the under side. Not ‘til the [...]
You are my beloved child. I chose you before the foundation of the world, to walk with Me along paths designed uniquely for you. (June 18th devotional from JESUS CALLING) ...I'm thankful GOD knew "the path" He had for me on June 18, 2002 ten years ago and what was about to happen. He wasn't "caught [...]
The man of integrity walks securely, but he who takes crooked paths will be found out. (Proverbs 10:9) Come climb into my head-trauma-surviving brain... This often-heard quote - "History repeats itself" - was riding the waves of my brain this afternoon. I was just wondering to myself, "Patti, are you doing your part to not let history [...]
Small things can make a big difference! Read this experience and see what you think -- Applesauce Author Unknown My daughter celebrated her 27th birthday yesterday. You probably would never know it to look at her. She’s so petite with a narrow frame. Nothing like her mother’s expanse. And she’s kind too. She carries a positive outlook [...]
A Welcomed Vision Posted Monday, May 14, 2012 by Marilyn Meberg with WOMEN OF FAITH To everything there is a season, a time for every purpose under heaven: . . . a time to weep, and a time to laugh. —Ecclesiastes 3:1, 4 Eleven or twelve hours after my mother's death, I was in the shower, [...]
