Instead of picking up the paper in the morning, I pick up my Bible. I typically hit 5 days a week.

I have a basket near my kitchen table with my Bible, journal, prayer folder, a copy of The Message, by Eugene Peterson, a couple pens, and the most recent addition...my READING GLASSES! <img border="0" title="" alt="[Eek!]" src="images/icons/shocked.gif" />

I also am in touch throughout my days as the spirit moves me.

I listen to Christian music when I'm in the car alone, and I always have some kind of spiritual book going.

I need all the reminders I can get! <img border="0" title="" alt="[Wink]" src="images/icons/wink.gif" />

I'm grateful to be at this point in my journey, and look forward to staying the course.

Rainbows:

I took my son for college orientation ten hours from home. I'd never been on the campus and was overwhelmed with the feeling of losing my oldest son to a place so far away.

The first evening I called my sister and cried like a baby. She'd been through it twice before and understood. She calmed me and assured me life would go on. <img border="0" title="" alt="[Wink]" src="images/icons/wink.gif" />

I warmed up to the campus and the idea as the weekend wore on.

Arriving at the airport to return home there were HUGE storms that happened to make the evening news back home in Baltimore.

We waited a couple hours to board the plane after the storms blew on.

Settled in my seat, I looked over my son's shoulder to see what the skies were doing and lo and behold, there was a rainbow. <img border="0" title="" alt="[Wink]" src="images/icons/wink.gif" />

I believe rainbows are signs of God's covenant with us.

I was moved to tears and took it as God's sign that my son would be taken care of by Him in his new college town.

During his first year when I would start the worrying, I made myself remember God's sign and promise.

I'm still amazed at His grace by sending a sign during such a appropriate time in my life.