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. […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
In the Harder household, there were certain Bible verses that were repeated over and over. One was “…let not thy left hand knoweth what thy right hand doeth” (Matthew 6:3). My precious mother was especially careful not to let anyone know how she helped people. When Mother was a heart patient unable to walk or […]
Yesterday was a delightful day. Then at suppertime I discovered that one of our residents at the retirement community where I live had tested positive for Covid-19. He, of course, will be in quarantine for the next few days and the community will have restrictions also. The moment I heard the news I thought “Here […]
Day before yesterday, I read Joli Beasley’s post about cooking with one arm. What a wonderful post. It has made me think about my own experiences with living with a birth defect. I was born with a condition called Amniotic Band Syndrome or ABS. This is a fairly rare condition caused by fibrous tissue from […]
Two days ago on Facebook my friend and former Oklahoma University colleague Aaron Pope shared a post about his great-great grand-father who fought in the Union Army during the Civil War. Thank you for sharing about your family member, Aaron. Your post inspired me to write this post about my relative who also served in […]
