Grain, Pain, and Smiling in the Rain

My head and heart are full. Full of the things of life. All the stuff to be done. To think about. All that I am not accomplishing. The press...

To finish one must start. The starting can be quite the challenge. But the biggest mountain to ascend is the middle;'so that one can fin...

Funny, I was driving home from driving kids to school, after my bi-weekly encounter with exercise, with a trainer, who pushes me, hard; driv...

And so with only a few minor adjustments, I can post something through a few tears, without reaching to far.  I am so blessed by Five Minute...

Prompt: Hero A hero, bigger than life, accomplishing the impossible, despite heart pounding fear demonstrates amazing acts of courage, conq...

Prompt word: visit Its kinda funny; I peeked at the prompt over the weekend. By peeked I mean I sat and prepared to write and some chil...

    Seems to be quite a few "drafts" on my dashboard. Not much writing, just titles, a few random thoughts. A picture or tw...

The tree has roots that go down deep. At least the trees that I am familiar with here in western Pennsylvania. Pennsylvania is an amazing pl...

Five Minute Friday Prompt: Truth  http://lisajobaker.com/2013/11/five-minute-friday-truth/ The whole truth is that I love my life. I do ...

Grace http://lisajobaker.cm/2013/11/five-minute-friday-grace/#comment-125552 Unmerited, undeserving, unending, unwavering...Grace of God....

I'm laughing, we'll not really. I'm sitting in my mom-mobile with the Labradoodle panting on the back seat. Waiting. Grown son i...

Ordinary the ordinary is the every day nitty gritty of life, the down on your knees wiping juice up off the worn hardwood floor, the sniff...

........ my dad always said...."MY CHILDREN, DON'T FALL IN LOVE WITH THIS WORLD...WE ARE JUST PASSING THROUGH....BUT HEAVEN AND E...

I have been writing as long as I can remember; I have paper proof as far back as junior high. During my third failed attempt at a college...

True: Writing prompt Five Minute I do not know how to do this in five minutes. True. What is most true is that living life is hard. For me...

And I laugh out loud. I have so many "hes", plural of he, she is almost an anomaly for me. Two beautiful daughter-in-laws and thre...

As in seeing red? on the red eye? In the red? Not able to wear red? (That would be me) The Red Dawn, does that date me? Red at night...? I ...

Mercy Mercy can sometimes be; easy to take, not so easy to give. The work of redemption demonstrated at the cross through the resurrection ...

When there is no more, how do we, I, go on? Waking up, thinking of the day ahead, my mind aches with chores, duties, and love that must be g...

I have been disappointed in myself that I cannot write except on Fridays for five minutes. If I can make myself do it on Friday why not ever...