by Melinda Poling | Jun 9, 2024 | Uncategorized
Our daughter’s dearly loved chocolate lab, Truffles, was ready to have pups. My niece was poised to help. Everything was washed and ready. Two o’clock on Saturday, June 1st, the first puppy arrived, a fox red, followed by a champagne, then a little silver. By midnight...
by Melinda Poling | May 10, 2024 | Family, Spiritual Growth
Dear Ones, Mother’s Day is fast approaching. This seemed a good time to share a memory where God certainly became the hero. Many of you know we made a choice to homeschool long before we had kids. But I had no idea the challenges that would come with that one...
by Melinda Poling | Feb 17, 2024 | Uncategorized
It was probably twenty years ago. Sure, we’ve had rough days since then. But that one made an impression on me that I think of every rainy season. It was late winter. Everyone had been inside, all 8 of us, back then. And each of us had stepped on one another one too...
by Melinda Poling | Jan 27, 2024 | Family
Hello Friends, I hope you all are seeing the peaks of sunshine this winter as a welcome warmth. It sure does a body good to see sun after ice, snow, and rain. Mid-January is when we get away to the beach for our church planning retreat each year. We were delighted to...
by Melinda Poling | Dec 13, 2023 | Family, Spiritual Growth
Christmas decoration and Christmas present. The words of this familiar carol warmed my soul: God rest ye merry gentlemen,Let nothing you dismay. Remember Christ our Savior,Was born this blessed day. To save us all from Satan’s power,When we were gone astray. Oh,...
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