Finding Direction: The Wind Vane Chronicles

Take time to seek out a better way, while exploring less traveled side roads along the path

Finding Direction:  The Wind Vane Chronicles

Entries Tagged as 'Perspective'

My Way is Unclear Today, But Stay With Me, Anyway . . .

June 14th, 2010 · 9 Comments · Perspective, Reflections, Spirituality, Tom & Me, Uncategorized

My heart is heavily burdened right now with family difficulties on many fronts, some from the distant past that have accumulated and come to a head in recent months.  Others have arisen over the past several months and continue to become more serious and onerous each day, it seems. I am spending my time, whether [...]

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God’s Beautiful LITTLE Things in Life

May 22nd, 2010 · 11 Comments · Inspirational, Perspective, Philosophical, Reflections, Spirituality, Tom & Me

This has been a most stressful week for me, with no modem/internet for four days, my blog host moving all of us TheoBloggers over to a new server, with us having some down time here on my blog, and assorted family emergencies and crises.  Being an in-betweener, with my mom still with me, having grown [...]

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The Girl in the Woods

May 18th, 2010 · 6 Comments · Friends, Inspirational, Perspective, Philosophical, Reflections, Spirituality, Stories, Uncategorized

She lived out in the deep Piney Woods of East Texas, a good ways out from Nacogdoches. She was 19 years old and married to a small thin man in his late 30s or early 40s who looked to be twice his age and was crippled up in his left arm from a working accident [...]

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Season of Prayer: God, Indeed, Knows The Details

April 26th, 2010 · 4 Comments · Families, Perspective, Reflections, Spirituality, Tom & Me

Tom & I are in a season of prayer for several people very close to us. Some are family members and some very good friends.  The relationships run together, which is as it “should” be in the life of a Christian, I think.  Don’t you? I’ve not slept well the past couple of nights after [...]

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Reflections In My Mind

March 18th, 2010 · 3 Comments · Blogging, Humor, Perspective, Reflections, Uncategorized

I want to throw out some of my thoughts today.  These are things I’ve been thinking about of late and things going on that I’d like to get some feedback on, if you will. I said this and the next two or three posts would be to “wrap up” last November’s Andrews Family Memories Tour [...]

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Today Is Question Day

March 4th, 2010 · 19 Comments · Blogging, Friends, Perspective, Reflections

I’ve decided that today shall be “Question Day” here at Finding Direction.  You ask me questions and I’ll answer.  Any subject/topic, full of meaning or meaningless, things that have really been bugging you about me/us/the “fam” that you don’t know, but would like to know, anything philosophical or educational that you think I might have [...]

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Arkansas Memories Tour of 2009: Cotter Life – Yesterday & Today, Part 1

January 27th, 2010 · 11 Comments · Families, Historical, Humor, Perspective, Photos, Videos, Stories, Tom & Me, Tom's Family

Who’s watched “Cinema Paradiso” yet?  Anyone?  If so (& when so) you must comment on what you think about it!!  Please. I’ve seen it probably 10 times and still cannot keep from bawling my eyes out at the end when . . ..  Nope.  You’ve got to see the movie. I especially think of Tom [...]

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