Raices y Ramas

I am often amused and thankful for the Holy Spirit in my life!   I thank Him today for the inspiration He blessed me with for my post today.   I was planning to post a happy birthday message in honor and memory of my mom on Facebook, but I didn’t want to post just a simple Happy Birthday, Mom! So the Spirit guided me through prayer to look at some of my early blogs written almost ten years ago right after Mom passed away.  As I read one of the posts, a thought occurred to me:  “I wish Mom was still here so I could get her a gift, she would come to visit the grandkids, and we’d have a great time!”  What irony?  Here I was, trying to come up with a special “gift” for my Mom, and the Holy Spirit hits me upside the head with the realization that she’s already received the ultimate gift from Jesus, Himself!  Then I realized, what better gift could I give her than to remind everyone who knew her of the gift that she herself was?  The post I was re...

  When I googled the word “love” for inspirational quotes about love to use on a card to my wife for Valentine’s Day, I found so many that It was evident that a great number of the people who wrote the pithy quotes never truly experienced a fulfilling love.   For the most part, they described “feelings” and “emotions” and “romance”.     Love certainly contains those things.   But true love goes beyond romance and feelings and emotions. True love is indescribable. True love must be lived.   You don’t think about it, you just do it. This indescribable love is the love I have for my wife. In October we will celebrate 50 years of marriage.   We’ve never had to “work” at our love.   It just exists.   You hear stories of people who say, “Our love grows every day”, or “We work hard to keep our love this strong.”   I believe God has blessed us in this regard, because my love for Marilyn is just as strong (if not stronger) today as it was whe...