by Gwen | Nov 21, 2017 | Authenticity, Basics, Church, Community, Faith, Friendship, Holidays, Jesus, Jim Ford, Kids, Love, Relationships, Thankfulness, Uncategorized
This is a picture of some of the world’s greatest body builders, all assembled in one place for an early Thanksgiving dinner. The little church building on the corner of where highways 309 and 23 meet in Ozark–Webb City Baptist–can’t contain them all at once anymore. Lifting weights, after all, makes you grow.
by Gwen | Nov 12, 2017 | Community, Family, Heathcliff, Hunter, Jim Ford, Kids, Love
We say it takes a village to raise a child, and I believe that’s true. But equally true is that we adults also need raising sometimes. We all need a village.
by Gwen | Sep 21, 2017 | Brokenness, Comfort, Faith, Family, Grace, Hope, Jim Ford, Love, Pain, Peace
There’s a land of the living and a land of the dead and the bridge is love, the only survival, the only meaning. Thornton Wilder I was nine months pregnant with my first baby when Granny died. Earlier in the evening I stood beside the hospital bed where...
by Gwen | Dec 14, 2015 | Challenges, Family, Humor, Hunter, Jim Ford, Kids
So, this is sort of a guest post. My brother, Jim Ford, put this on Facebook the other day and I loved it so much I asked him if I could use it on my blog. I was planning to elaborate and embellish, one (two?) of my specialties. The thing is, every time I start to do that, it’s not as good as when I just leave it alone. So, here it is, in all of its sparse, wise, glory:
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