by bethwestcott | Aug 18, 2021 | authors, Book recommendation, learning and life, Thoughts
NEW BOOKS AND INTRODUCING MICHELLE I’ve learned that each season of life presents its challenges. As long as I’m living, I’m learning. As I learn, I grow spiritually, mentally, and emotionally. And I’m growing older, which presents its own...
by bethwestcott | Jun 29, 2021 | authors, Book recommendation, Thoughts
If you’re of my generation, you probably remember when Nat King Cole sang about the “lazy, hazy, crazy days of summer.” When it’s hot and hazy, and the heat and humidity sap your strength, it’s tempting and sometimes necessary to be lazy....
by bethwestcott | May 5, 2021 | Inspiration, Nature and Creation, Our words, Thoughts
ROOTED AND GROUNDED: PLANTING SEEDS A seed contains the all the genetic information to produce another plant like the one from which it came. Isn’t it amazing how a tiny seed sprouts and grows into a plant many times larger and more complex? An acorn, a larger seed,...
by bethwestcott | Jan 25, 2021 | Devotional, Inspiration, Our words, Thoughts
“A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold In settings of silver.” Proverbs 25:11 2020 was a difficult and unsettling year, which included a pandemic and a divisive national election. Harsh rhetoric and half-truths stirred up anger and strife, even among followers of...
by bethwestcott | Dec 24, 2020 | Thoughts
THE POINSETTIA There is a Mexican legend that a poor Mexican girl named Pepita had no gift for the Baby Jesus for her church’s Christmas Eve service. Having nothing else, she picked a small bouquet of weeds and placed them at the bottom of the nativity scene....
by bethwestcott | Dec 14, 2020 | Devotional, Holiday, Inspiration, Thoughts
CHRISTMAS BELLS When you think of bells at Christmastime, what comes to mind? Jingle bells? Sleigh bells? Church bells? Hand bells? Henry Wadsworth Longfellow wrote his poem “I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day” during a time of deep personal and national turmoil. The...
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