Category: New in our lives

• A day in the life

  We wake before the sun crests the horizon behind our back porch. The roaming roosters begin their calls while the myriad dogs rest from their late night spars. Our morning cup of tea requires milk, less for flavor or heat than for assurance that we’ve removed any ants who may have drowned in it. Most […]

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  Donna Douglass

  Monday September 30, 2013

  New in our lives

  aviation, Flying, Palau, travel

• A picture emerges

  Floating puzzle pieces once haunted my mind when I considered the future. Bits of who I was, they simply didn’t fit any life I could imagine. Eight years ago, they suddenly fell into place when I met Slick. Immediately I recognized the path God had planned all along. In recent days I’ve seen that happen […]

  Donna Douglass

  Sunday May 26, 2013

  At the foot of the Throne, New in our lives

  aviation, donna douglass, faith, family, Flying, God, meditation, missionaries, pets, religion, travel

• midcourse guidance

  An isolated island in the rushing torrent of “modern life,” set apart in space and time. No wi-fi, out of cell coverage, no satellite or cable, only one phone line for the office. In the tents and cabins, no electricity or running water. Camp leaped toward modernity with the addition of their overhead projector. But […]

  Donna Douglass

  Saturday September 8, 2012

  At the foot of the Throne, New in our lives

  children, donna douglass, faith, family, God, meditation, relationships, religion, travel

• God’s gift of love

  We had all of 30 minutes to spare between when we arrived in the rain at the birth center and when Matilda Grace waltzed into the world of light and sound and made her first little cry. Her 21 inches seem tiny and her 7 pounds 14 oz weigh nothing as she lays on my […]

  Donna Douglass

  Saturday April 28, 2012

  New in our lives

  donna douglass, family, God, love