Dear Friends of joyfulandhappyliving, Thank you for joining with me in praying for the safety and peace in Ukraine: Dear Heavenly Father, We love You and humbly beg for Peace and Safety to once again inhabit Ukraine. Dear Lord, thank you for the character and determination of the people of Ukraine. Grant them Your protection. […]
Some times we get scared. Life’s problems seem too big for us. At times like these we need to get quiet and and to realign our thinking. Yes, the problems in the world are too big for us to handle but we don’t have to solve them. We need to hand them over to the […]
Dear Lord, we humbly beseech Thee for victory for the brave people of Ukraine! This morning as we got out of our nice warm beds we were besieged with photos of a Ukrainian mother and child who died when they were injured in an attack on the maternity hospital where the mother was due to […]
When I was a little girl, my parents had houseguests who were from Romania. They had been in a concentration camp in Europe during World War II. They never gave up and they eventually escaped to freedom. Their courage and fierce determination never gave up. The truth of their story lives on in my life […]
Today the world is filled with hate — hate in the embodiment of a man named Putin who has caused a war with innocent people. Yesterday Putin and his Russian forces killed people and a child in a maternity hospital in Ukraine while women were in labor there! God the Father, God the Son Jesus […]
My father was in the hospital many times before he went to Heaven to be with the Lord. One of these times he was taken care of by a nurse who had a truly remarkable sprit. One day we were remarking on her personality. She said, “One of my patients said I was beautiful. I […]
The blogs in this blog post are for everyone no matter if the reader is young or old, living in his or her home or living in a retirement community, healthy or sick. But occasionally I want to write special blogs for certain groups and today is one of those days. I want to focus […]
A few days ago was National Acts of Random Kindness Day which occurs every year on February 17th in the United States. It is also celebrated in New Zealand. You don’t need a special day to do an act of kindness. You can just do it any of the 365 days of the year 24/7 […]
Dear Friends, Have you ever kept a gratitude List? A GL is a list of things you are grateful to the Lord for putting in your life! You can call it by various names such as a Thank you list, a Gratitude Journal or a thank you notebook. Whatever you call it, it is a […]
Are you one of the fortunate people in the world who has had a best friend who just happened to be a cat or a dog? Well, then this blog is for you! In my life time I have been blessed by the joy and pleasure of being loved by five fantastic dogs and eight […]
