Lenten Calendars for 2013

Happy Easter! Hallelujah! How nice it is to say that word again after suppressing it for forty days. Here is my finished calendar for this Lent. Unlike last year’s calendar where I focused on the names for God, this year’s entries were a hodgepodge of...

A Homemade Day and A Homemade Year

My 2 1/2 year-old granddaughter loves to shop for groceries. She shops with her parents in the “real” store and also at home with a pink and green plastic shopping cart she received as a Christmas gift. On a visit to her house two weeks ago I was invited...

Love First

It only took 10 hours into Lent before I was giving myself a back lashing for my stinking thinking. It involved a little jealousy on my part. I’m almost never jealous of people’s stuff; I don’t want a nicer car or house or jewelry…. But I often...

Lenten Calendar Templates 2013

Ash Wednesday, February 13–the first day of Lent– is only five days away. Here are three templates you can use to mark the 40 days (46, counting weekends) until Easter. Two of the templates are modeled on previous years. The newest one, the one with the...