Living on St Croix
In defense of Christmas cards and letters…
I love sending and getting Christmas cards, and it pains me that the tradition seems to be dying out. With Facebook and email, people just aren’t sending cards through the mail like they used to. I think that’s tragic. I refuse to succumb to this new normal, though, so my Christmas cards got mailed this … Continue reading
Goodness
This week I have been showered with gifts of goodness, grace, and kindness from lots of directions, and I have to admit that the joy of receiving them has been a salve to my heart this week. This good sweetness has come in lots of forms and through many types of delivery systems. Some were … Continue reading
Call the ‘Whaa-ambulance”!
Since we only have generator power right now and no internet, that means no TV – except for movies on DVD. We only have a few DVDs so we put a call out to a couple of friends who threw some of their favorite movies into a priority mail box and mailed them to us. … Continue reading
Make Your Own Fun
Wherever you go, (in my philosophy of life), you have to make your own fun. Rarely does life just hand you frivolity and because of that, we are almost wholly responsible for finding and / or manufacturing our own fun. I was just reading a devotion that discussed happiness and how happiness is the byproduct … Continue reading
God of all Comfort
Pastor John at Frederiksted Baptist preached a timely and thoughtful sermon yesterday (as he does every Sunday!). Since the hurricanes he’s been centering his thoughts on II Corinthians 1:3 that says “God is the Father of compassion and the God of all comfort.” John’s messages for the weeks since the storms have been full of … Continue reading
Rock or Sand?
The foolish man built his house upon the sand. The wise man built his house upon the rock. The Coulsons bought a house that is perched on a man-made flat spot half way up a hill. Hmmm. Sand or rock? Not sure now and we are having our doubts. Clean up on St Croix since … Continue reading
Back home again!
This has been a difficult week. When the wheels of our plane touched the ground on St. Croix last Monday, the passengers broke into applause. It was a plane load full of people just like us. People who love and live on the island, but who had been away for the hurricanes. The lady in … Continue reading
…and our vacation from retirement ends for this year!
We are going home on Monday! The St. Croix airport opened on Thursday, and we have reservations for Monday, so God willing, we will be home by late afternoon. Yay! Since our flight to Miami leaves at 6 am and we’ll be traveling all day, I’m posting my blog today. We’ve spent four months and … Continue reading
Holding on
There is so much to be thankful for. Life every day is a gift. The fact that our friends and neighbors and our house on St Croix are fine, though battered and bruised, is a blessing beyond belief. The fact that we just lived a wonderful four months of travel and friends and family and … Continue reading
