Ask Aunt B

Dear Aunt B Readers, Week one of three week series on New Year’s resolutions, here we come. We are going to explore a couple of different perspectives in examining your life and having plans to make the wanted changes you desire in your life.. First: How do you divide your life?

THE PAST IS GONE FOR GOOD, NO ONE CAN GET IT BACK

This is the first day of the rest of our lives. We cannot change anything in our past at all. We can learn from the mistakes, and remember and use the good to an advantage. What we have learned from the past, good or bad is the best teacher we will ever have. That teacher’s name is wisdom.

How Did God The Father Honor Jesus?

“It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them,” wrote Mark Twain. In heaven, Jesus had the deserved honor and glory of myriads of angelic hosts, yet he entered this world in the humblest of circumstances.

Biding Our Time

Educators are working diligently to provide instruction in-person or remotely with the hopes of returning to our normal pre-COVID 19 routines.

Three Rights Make a Left

It was decided that they would all spend Christmas on the farm. The best news for Jett was that his Aunt Jane and Uncle Jim would be there too with his three cousins Emily, Russ and Sarah. They brought their travel trailer and parked it under the big Elm tree beside the house.

Miss Scarlett in the Conservatory with a Lead Pipe

Here. We. Go. Again. This is the way millennials write things in social media posts when they want to seem exasperated and they need you to imagine them rolling their eyes and taking a micro-pause in between each staccato embellished word.

Ask Aunt B

Dear Aunt B, What’s your take on New Year’s resolutions? I used to make them and haven’t for a long time. I am thinking of trying again. Just want to be better Dear Just want to be better, Me too. I always want to be better and you know a little secret, we probably are better.

Laymen’s Corner

Our battle between those two lifestyles is still raging. The temptations we face seem to increase daily in our day and time. The good comes from GOD through the indwelling Holy Spirit, and the bad is formed in our minds.

AN OLD CHRISTMAS STORY 2020 (Part 1)

2020 had been a tough year for the Swift family. Megyn had just gotten her Master’s Degree in Education and taken a job as a Substitute Teacher until the new school year brought the promise of a career in the profession she loved.

The Maya Angelou Effect

Victorian dresses. Hats with large brims. Men with 3 piece suits and handlebar mustaches. Lots of stopwatches. The Statue of Liberty. Valets as placeholders in an Ellis Island line. This is how I imagined my ancestors arriving in the United States.