Grandma's Gleanings
Words and Thoughts from Grandma
This would be so exciting! For the first time ever, I was going to make my very own home-sewn dress! Ah, the Junior High Home Economics Nightmare of 1968, who could forget it. I carefully chose the pattern, the fabric (which looking back, wreaked with gaudiness..yikes!), and all the needed notions. I didn’t know …
As I’ve mentioned a number of times, I’m an admitted plant-o-holic. Our property was fairly barren when we moved in decades ago, but no longer, for I have succeeded in cluttering the entire yard with shrubs, plants, bushes, flowers, tress, and of course, stray cats. But there is a downside to yard cluttering. What …
What a disaster! I have been responsible for some pretty outrageous kitchen mess-ups during my early years as a wife, but they all pale in comparisons to this disaster. We had been married for only a few years when I thought it useful to learn how to can our own foods. We had a …
What started as an ordinary Monday morning trip to the grocery store was quickly transformed into a one-on-one lesson on peace today. With my organized list in hand and my reusable storage bags in tow, I sanitized the handle of my shopping cart and was on my way. I had watched the news, was …
Oh what a happy soul I am, Although I cannot see. I am resolved that in this world, Contented I will be. Born in Putnam County, New York, a sweet baby girl would become ill within 2 months of her birth. Due to the fact that their family physician was called out of town, …
It was the “cool of the day,” another perfect evening in a perfect garden. Creation had been completed, the “waters under the heaven,” the bountiful ground that “brought forth grass,” those “great lights…to rule the day and night,” the vast array of “moving creatures” of the sea and “every winged fowl of the air,” …
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We shall not flag or fail, we shall go on to the end. We shall fight in France, we shall fight on the seas and oceans, we shall fight with growing confidence, and growing strength in the air, we shall defend our island…we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing …
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If you have never read about it, perhaps you have sung about it: The foot bone’s connected to the ankle bone, the ankle bone’s connected to the leg bone…’dem bones, ‘dem bones, ‘dem dry bones…and on it goes. As I read through a passage of Scripture, often I pause for a moment, close my …
It would be one of the most sophisticated water systems of its day, tediously dug under the ancient City of David. A tunnel was forged out of the solid rock beneath the holy city of Jerusalem, laboriously chiseled by hand, a long S-shaped curve that gently sloped downward from the Gihon Spring to the …
When our petite, teeny Oriental bundle of joy arrived on the scene many years ago, her daddy’s heart immediately exploded with deep joy and unbridled love. From the moment he set his eyes on her, he would forever be her hero; she could always be confident in her daddy’s enduring affection and unwavering acceptance. …
He was perhaps the greatest American ultra-runner of the 1920’s, yet his rags-to-riches story is relatively unknown. Born in Finland in 1893, this top-rated cross-country runner immigrated to the United States at the age of 18, serving in the merchant marines during World War I. During his three-year tour of duty, he would complete …
The Chinese use two brush strokes to write the word ‘crisis.’ One brush stroke stands for danger; the other for opportunity. In a crisis, be aware of the danger-but recognize the opportunity. These motivational words were spoken by John F. Kennedy during a campaign speech in Indianapolis, Indiana, on April 12, 1959. That charismatic …
I had warned my students so often that I was weary of hearing the same exhortation over and over and over again. Our small, church-school employed as their curriculum an Accelerated Christian Education format, designed for independent work by way of individual packets of learning, or books, referred to as PACE’s. When a student …