Come Sit By Me

Save others by snatching them from the fire; to others show mercy mixed with fear.........!!  JUDE 1:23 I realize the scripture above is speaking of a very different kind of "saving others from the fire" - it is speaking of the spiritual man.  But, I wanted to use this scripture as it has had much meaning to me down through my life in many ways.  So, on to my story...... Once again my thoughts go back to my childhood. I was in grade school at this time.  Mom and I had walked downtown to the grocery store.  We lived in a very small town in Southern Ohio, and my family had no car, so our only way to get from place to place in this tiny town was to walk. Today I know that was not a big deal, and was actually good for me and for the others in my family. We were on our way home when the sirens from the firehouse began to blare, a very rare thing to happen in our small town. "Wonder what is going on and who might be in trouble?" Mom said to me.  I wondered, too,

Come sit by me and we'll watch as Old Man Winter very reluctantly gives up his title and hands it over to Sister Springtime.  It is the last of February, 2019. Yes, I jumped from being a five year old child in my last post to present day, and I am now a Senior Citizen of seventy-eight. Usually time seems to pass very quickly now, but not so with the closing of a strange and long Winter season.  At least, in my mind it has felt that way.  The weather has seemed as if it can't make up it's mind. One day snowy, the next day in the forties or fifties, with rain and even some early thunderstorms. But enough of the whining about the physical weather.  I am just glad to be here writing again.  I want to share a bit about how many people "came to sit with me" the last while as I went through a winter season of my own, but in the physical way. I was waiting to see if I definitely had a serious health problem, and it was a dark and gloomy time. I have been shown there

February, 2019  Remembering - 1st story/post Today, as you sit with me remembering, let's go back to a day in March of 1945. I was five years old, and it was a sad time in our household, as my oldest brother was "somewhere" overseas fighting in World War II.  Not only him, but my oldest sister's husband was going through the same thing, only they were in different parts of the world, not knowing where each other was. And, our family didn't really know, either.  I was too young to understand all the concerned faces.  I just knew it was constant for the most part.  I was always a very timid child, and easily upset and scared, so this was not a fun time for me, even though I didn't know why. I remember there were times when my sister and sister-in-law would come to our home for extended visits, because they couldn't stand being alone another minute, not knowing if their husbands were alive or dead. They were so young, and hadn't been married very l

February 5, 2019 Good morning to any and all who are visiting my blog page. This is a new thing for me, but something I have wanted to try for a long time. Without going into much detail about it all, I want to tell you what you can expect from my posts in the future. As the title of my blog  says, I simply want to share some times when I was blessed to be able to "just sit with someone," and to share times when I have needed someone to just sit with me. As I grow older, very often my mind seems to wander back in time from when I was a little girl, all the way to who I am now....an elderly lady who has lived a full, rich and blessed life. As I traveled along the pathway of life I learned many, many lessons from various times and happenings. So I ask you to wander back with me to some of those times.  Times of joy, grief, wonder, happiness, fun, quietness, and so many other ways. Most of all I hope to be an inspiration to some of you, whether it be in the physical, spir