Murmuring Meadow

God is so good, she wrote and paused, a deep sigh of contentment filling her lungs.... All trials have purpose and He guides you patiently as your mind runs wild with the "what ifs". The darkest hour passed, not without tears, hardships and trouble, but now you are stronger than before....

Merry Christmas! Jesus, our Savior is born - the One who took the sins of the world on His shoulders and died that we can live, humbled himself to be born of a virgin in a stable in Bethlehem.

I am Elinor, Sun Ray. I shed light around me, a wisp of a girl, clad in flowing white. A warm, happy smile lingers on my lips and a kind word readies to leap out at a moment's notice.

In a field of rosy flowers as the sun fell in the western sky, a young man approached a girl whose head was bowed as if in prayer. He paused, eyes lingering upon her until she opened her eyes and drew close to him.

Martin Luther once said, “Next to the Word of God, the noble art of music is the greatest treasure in the world.” Ever since I was little, I wanted to play an instrument. The instrument I dreamed of playing would vary greatly, between piano, violin, harp and flute. For my eighth birthday, all I wanted was a harp or a flute, but mainly a harp, and so I cried and cried when Mom gently told me that we couldn’t afford a harp or had the space to keep one. As I grew older though, I