October 3rd, 2014 
dsisler My dear friend at work asked me several weeks ago if I’d like some apples for cooking and baking. Of course I said yes. This week she delivered. I have more apples than I know what to do with, but they are straight from her apple trees and I know come mid-January I will […]
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No Comments » September 10th, 2014 dsisler Sometimes I think I’m getting old faster than I should. There are reasons for this. I know I don’t eat as well as I should. I know I don’t exercise…at all. My job keeps me at a desk for most of the day. Not to mention that the activities that bring me the most […]
Posted in Believe, Find, Hear, Know, Seek, Trust Tags: 2 Corinthians 12:9, 2 Corinthians 4:16-18, aging too quickly, feeling old, God's grace, God's presence, God's Word, new life breathed into me by God, Paul's thorn in the flesh, physical constrictions, renewed day by day, There are Days, wasting away No Comments » November 1st, 2013 dsisler It’s November 1, 2013. This is the first November 1st in five years that I haven’t started a novel on this day. I don’t have any story lines bouncing around in my head. I don’t have any pressure to write 1,670 words toward the final project. I don’t have the challenge or pressure of […]
Posted in Find, Follow, Seek, Trust Tags: Challenges, facing challenges with God, God's Word, NaNonFiWriMo, NaNoWriMo, novels, Scripture No Comments » October 20th, 2013 dsisler It’s Sunday morning! Time to get up and head to the house of the Lord! Sunday mornings are special (I pray they are for you as well). I understand King David’s words in Psalm 122:1 (NIV). “I rejoiced with those who said to me, ‘Let us go to the house of the Lord.’” There […]
September 3rd, 2013 dsisler I heard a news story yesterday of a ship captain running his 260 foot vessel aground in the Farne Islands. In an attempt to sail from Scotland to Belgium, he admitted that he forgot England sat between the two countries. This was not this captain’s only mistake (although forgetting England is the most memorable). […]
