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- WHO IS CAROL ANN RITCHEY – WHY THE CHANGE –
- HOME SWEET HOME – BACK ON OUR LOT AFTER THREE NIGHTS AND FOUR DAYS AWAY – WHERE DID WE GO – TO GIANT RECREATION WORLD – THAT’S AN RV SERVICE CENTER – NOT A RESORT –
- WHOA – STILL DWELLING IN OUR MOTORHOME – TWO YEARS NOT TRAVELING – FINALLY HAVE INTERNET WE CAN USE – ADAPTED MY NOVEL INTO A SCREENPLAY – THAT WAS FUN – HAD A LOT TO LEARN AND LEARNED WHILE WRITING – NOW READY TO SELL – DUH – PANDEMIC – YOU GOT TO BE KIDDNIG – STILL – OUR GOD REIGNS – THE LORD IS ALWAYS GOOD –
- Our Rocking Rolling 2018 Tour in Our Motorhome – Living Life – Like Everyone Else – Lots of Good Times – Some Trials and Tribulations – But in the End – It’s All Good – God is Good –
- So Long – So Long – Not Goodbye but Too Long not to Post – We Live the RV Life – Data Costs More than We Like – Posting Requires Data – Almost Decided to Quit Posting – Catch Up Time –
- I Opened the Shades to See the Sun Rise – Black Storm Clouds Loomed – What Would Sunrise Look Like – Would the Light Shine Through – YES – Gloom Gave Way to Bursting Shades of Purple Pink and Lavendar – Reminding Me of Troubled Times that Shrink When Grace and Truth Appear – God Is Good – Hang on When Trouble Hides the Light – Ashes Blow Away – Beauty Remains –
- Sunrise at Van Horn RV Park in Van Horn, Texas – Small Town – Excellent Park – We Are Resting Here – Calm Blue Skies in the Morning – Motorhomes and Fifth Wheels and Campers Coming and Going Each Day – We Love It –
- Books Books – I Read – I Read – And I Wrote the Novel – Buddy for David – Key Words – Crime – Family – Hope – Despair – Adventure – Boy – Dog – Ex Convicts – Love – Courage – Victory – Rich in Action Scenes and Dialogue – Movie to Be –
- Beginning Our 2018-19 Tour in our Motorhome – And the Excitement Builds – What Could Be So Exciting – For Me – Looking Out Our Windows Beholding New Surroundings – I Love It –
- Blue Sky – Blue Sky – Morning Is My Favorite Time of Day –
- Bikes in Our Future – Steve Turning 80 Soon – Carol Ann 70 – We Think We Can Ride Them and Have Fun – Good Exercise – A Recap of Challenging Journey – Different from Our First Year that Happened without a Hitch –
- Las Cruces New Mexico – Destination for Fun with Friends – Fellow RVers Meet Us Here – We Dine Together at Local Restaurants – And There Are Plenty – Steve Had Coach and Jeep Washed after Five Days of Rain and Mud in Texas – Now They Shine Again –
- Long Time No Post – Spent All Our Time Having Fun with Family – But Then Moved on and Parked Here in Louisiana – View of the Bayou – Simple but Adequate RV Park – Staying Longer than Scheduled – Again Diverging from Our Original Plan –
- Moving toward Our Next Destination – Driving a Comfortable Distance – Following Our Plan – Reaching Parks We Booked Months Earlier – Three Days to Rest – Three Days that Fly By –
- Everyday Life for People that Live in an RV – What Could Be Better than to Wake Up in the Morning to New Surroundings yet Being in Your Own Home – It’s the Little Things in Life that Make it Okay –
- Had to Share this Photo of Lake Erie Shore – We Arrived this Afternoon Greeted by a Wasp that Flew into the Small Window Used to Pay Tolls from the Driver’s Seat – Last Year Hornets Invaded the Cockpit – One Huge Wasp Was Just as Effective in Slowing Down our Progress until We Smacked it Silly and Tossed it in the Trash –
- Where Have We Been – Up to Flagstaff Arizona – Albuquerque and Santa Rosa New Mexico – Amarillo Texas – Oklahoma City – West Memphis Arkansas – Nashville Tennessee – Virginia – Pennsylvania – Long Island New York – Ohio now – Heading for Michigan in a Few Days – South to Florida, West through Louisiana, Mississippi, Texas, and New Mexico – Back to AZ –
- Camping on Little Pigeon River Makes Up for Being Canceled by Our RV Park on the Mighty Mississippi – Which Flooded Her Banks This Year – Here We Are on Another Riverbank – Enjoying the View –
- Growing – Learning – Believing – Confidence – Resting – Our Inheritance in Christ –
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Standing at the Threshold – Resisting the Force Pulling Me Back –
Standing at the threshold – Knowing I’ll never return – Hesitating – Wishing To know if I really want To go – Standing at the threshold – Thinking I should Turn around and run The other way – but I … Continue reading
Posted in Adventure, Poetry
Tagged Carol Ann Hoel, Excitement, Force, Forward, Free, Holding back, Home, Pulling me back, Resisting, Threshhold, Time runs out, Unknown, Unknown path, Wind, Wind at my back
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Jesus – You Cherish Me
Prelude to poem: Remember the song we sang as children: Jesus loves me; this I know; for the Bible tells me so. Yes, Jesus loves me; the Bible tells me so. And so it does tell us so (John 3:16). … Continue reading
Posted in Analysis, Bible Verses, Poetry, Thought
Tagged abundant grace, Almighty God, Believer, Calvary, cherish me, Children, Fail, Forgiven, Free, Hope, Jesus, Lamb of God, Mistake, Redemption, Regret
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Training – Will I Melt Down
Waiting on You – LORD – I so often fail – You are training me – LORD – Am I learning it now – Trouble comes – I see it Just before it lands – Fear not – Right- Fear … Continue reading
Posted in Bible Verses, Poetry
Tagged Abednego, and Abednego, Collapse, Comfort, Containment, Daniel 3, Fail, Failure of Containment, Faithful LORD, Fear, Fear makes me pray, Fear Not, Forgive, Forgive my lapse, Forgiveness, Free, Furnace, Holy Spirit, Jesus, Jesus sets me free, Lapse, Learning, Lord, Melt Down, Meltdown, Meshach, Nuclear Event, Pray, Rescue, Rescues Me, Rest, Shadrach, Strengthen, Sustain, Test, Then the Test, Training, Trouble, Trouble Comes, Trouble with a capital T, Trust, Trust and Rest, Wait, Wait on the LORD, Waiting, Waiting on the LORD, Walks alongside, Will I Melt down, Will I rest, Will I Trust, You are training me
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Winter Season Storm Watch – Take Cover
Extreme is the word that comes to mind When I think of this season of our lives – Together – my husband and I – have been thrust From lands well known to realms UN-known – From friendly skies to … Continue reading
Posted in Alzheimer's, Bible Verses, Poetry
Tagged Awful behaviour, Bizarre Situations, Blind, Cat having a bath, Extreme, Familiar Scenery, Free, Free falling, Friendly skies, Grace, Grace is mine and free, Had to die, Hoping, hostile terrains, lands well known, LORD You are here, Not alone, Obscure passages, Outer space, realms unknown, Redeem, Redemption, scattered, Season of life, Shattered, Strength for asking, Trusting, Weak, Well lighted pathway, You had to die to redeem me
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Sometimes I Forget My Flesh Is There
LORD – I struggled with her yesterday – I was cranky for no good reason – Sometimes I forget my flesh is there – But You reveal my adversary to me – Oft she may assert herself – Though I … Continue reading
Posted in Bible Verses, Poetry
Tagged Better Day, Born of the Spirit, Catch Unaware, Change, Cranky, Demanding Her Own Way, Domain, Familiar Territory, Flee, Flesh, Forever, Forget My Flesh, Forgive, Free, Groan within, Hate, Immortality, In my Flesh is No Good Thing, Jesus, Lord, Mortal, Mortal Puts On Immortality, New Life In Christ, No Good Reason, No Good Thing in Flesh, Praise, Praise the LORD, Rattles Cage, Redemption, Redemption of Body, Seeking Her Old Territory, Seeks Control, Shame Your Name, Shine Light, Shining Light, Sometimes I forget My Flesh, Struggle, Thank You Lord, Throne, Triumph, Twinkling of an Eye, Upper Hand, When She Rattles Her Cage, You Reveal My Adversary, Your Spirit in Me
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The World Turns
The world turns My heart yearns For peace and safety For the ones I love Days gone by that Once distressed me Compared with troubles Now all around me Seem small and Insignificant My own travails Seemed larger then My … Continue reading
Posted in Bible Verses, Poetry
Tagged Bible, Captive, Christian, Deliverance, Free, God, Jesus, Lord, Past, Psalm 34, Psalms, Trouble, Trust, World, World turns; Days gone by
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Blunder of the Ages meant for evil but God meant for good
Watching the remnants of Tropical Storm Hermine, I am reminded how blessed we have been to escape the brunt of so many bad storms. In fact, most of us see these storms only on TV. Yet, we identify with and … Continue reading
Posted in Thought, Uncategorized
Tagged Crucifixion, Death, Earthquake, Evil, Free, God, Good, hurricane, Jesus, Justice, Life, Salvation, Storms, Tornado, Tsunami
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