Mayday Mayday Mayday!!

May 13, 2014 By 4 Comments

Believe It Or Not, Everyone Walked Away. God is good.  Calling in Trouble.  Maybe you didn’t know that the United States Coast Guard Auxiliary is the uniformed, volunteer component of Team Coast Guard. Probably you didn’t know that  I met my husband when I joined the auxiliary. He taught the course, Boating Skills and Seamanship, that I completed as […]


Filed Under: action, Activist Faith, boat ride, conflict, crisis, danger, death, fear, God's omnipotence, John 15, memory, obedience, rescue, strength, trust

Living in Great Big Bites

July 27, 2012 By

Rear: Elaine, Me in My So-Happy-I’m-Goofy Face, Rich Front: Cadence, Sawyer, Vaite, Rob The Best Kind of Crazy“How, exactly do those French women stay so slim?” I ask my niece, Vaite, over dinner one evening. With her fork she nudges about four bites of homemade macaroni and cheese into a tiny heap on her plate. […]


Filed Under: blessings, boat ride, Ephesians 3, family, Fourth of July, God's omnipotence, grandchildren, gratitude, Tahiti, travel

Why I Need to be at Laity Lodge’s Writers Retreat

August 31, 2011 By

Running Our Boat on the Ocean. July 3, 2009. A Top Ten List A bunch of my good friends over at The High Calling are heading off to this amazing retreat next month. And they’re giving away a seat at the event! I really, really, really want to attend. (And I need to: good writers […]


Filed Under: baking, birthday, boat ride, encouragement, gifts, God's omnipotence, Laity Lodge, oceans, Psalm 37, retreat, seek, The High Calling

Treasure Hunting

June 6, 2011 By 12 Comments

Fire Station No. 4, Balboa Island. May, 2011 Seeking His Treasures Afoot on Balboa Island After a somber morning of mourning on Memorial Day, my husband Rich and I set out on a treasure hunt in Newport Harbor. We’d visited the harbor countless times by boat. We knew the fuel dock, the sea lions shamelessly […]


Filed Under: beauty, boat ride, comfort, creation, dog, gifts, glory, God's omnipotence, grace, gratitude, grief, honor, hope, humility, joy, love, Psalm 136, redemption, treasure, work

Treasure Hunting

June 6, 2011 By

Fire Station No. 4, Balboa Island. May, 2011 Seeking His Treasures Afoot on Balboa Island After a somber morning of mourning on Memorial Day, my husband Rich and I set out on a treasure hunt in Newport Harbor. We’d visited the harbor countless times by boat. We knew the fuel dock, the sea lions shamelessly […]


Filed Under: beauty, boat ride, comfort, creation, dog, gifts, glory, God's omnipotence, grace, gratitude, grief, honor, hope, humility, joy, love, Psalm 136, redemption, treasure, work
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