A Big Decision

By Debra DuPree Williams @DDuPreeWilliams

When my husband and I lived in Birmingham, Alabama, we had the honor and privilege of singing in one of the best church choirs around. You’ve read about it if you’ve followed my blog for a while. Independent Presbyterian Church has always had an extraordinary music program. It does to this day.

Peace and Grace

One of the anthems we sang at Christmas was E’en So, Lord Jesus. The words are paraphrased, taken from scripture. They implore Jesus to come quickly, as they pray for peace and grace to all mankind.

  

I’ve thought about this anthem a lot in the past couple of days in light of my beliefs. I will not compromise my religious beliefs for anything. I am a follower of Jesus. I try to live my life as I feel He wants me to live it . . . as one who shows His love in all that I say and do.

At the End of Your Rope?

By Debra DuPree Williams @DDuPreeWilliams

Have you ever felt that you were at the end of your rope? I think most of us have. Sometimes life just throws so much at us that it’s hard to cope. We don’t know if the decisions we’ve made are the right ones, friends betray us, people say hurtful, cruel things to us or about us. The ones we thought would always be there either leave this world or they simply abandon us for one reason or another.

When I saw the man up in the tree in our back yard, I had to walk away. See, I’m deathly afraid of heights—Acrophobia. I have a case of that big time. I don’t do well on even a short step ladder. Forget the eight-foot one out in our garage. Nope. That little beauty is my husband’s domain.

We recently moved into our condo here in North Carolina. The actual move-in was at the end of January, but we weren’t really living here until the beginning of May. In January, there were no leaves on the trees outside our rear windows. We had a fairly unobstructed view of the golf course that lies beyond our boundary.

Who Do You Think You Are?

By Debra DuPree Williams @DDuPreeWilliams

This has become not only the name of a popular television show in recent years, but a question asked on social media as well. As more and more of us delve into the tech-world and engage more and more people in the latest-greatest inventions like Instagram and Twitter, just to name a couple, we are finding groups of people who tell us, “Hey, we’re related.”

I admit it. I was hooked from the beginning on the television show, but I was also mesmerized by my family Facebook groups.