Starting January 1st 2018, I would like to challenge you to read a chapter of proverbs each day for the month of January.  (We have done this before in years past but have taken a few years off recently.) In addition, each day in January, @ phillipbrande.com, we will post a devotional on the chapter […]

Its a great view from up here huh? (Daresum) Great view. (Grissum) There she is…. the farmer’s lunch. (Daresum) She doesn’t even know… She’s so happy (Grissum) What a life, she has ate well this year. (Daresum) Very well… Sun’s starting to come up. (Grissum) Lights (Daresum) and now for the… (Grissum) Action. (Daresum) Screen […]

Each year beginning in October our family begins to play holiday theme music to carry us through the holiday season.  It starts with October Music and ends with Christmas Music. In between those is what we call Thanksgiving Music (of course:)).  Over the years this list has evolved with songs being added and others we took […]

Seems this fall I have been faced with a season of grief.  There are things that sometimes happen that are totally out of my control.  I didn’t cause them to happen, they just happened.  Things like decisions friends make that hurt me to to core, and the knowledge that I know the decision wasn’t the […]