Bonnie Jaeckle's Blog – May 2012 Archive (5)

My first position as an emergency room nurse was in a new facility just outside the city limits.  Because we were nestled in cornfields on three sides, field mice would often find their way through the emergency entrance in the winter.  Rarely making an appearance when things were hoppin’, given a quiet night when all the emergency staff were restlessly anticipating the next disaster, the sneaky varmints would almost always show up as if to say, “Tada!  Na-na na-na na na!”

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I chuckle every time I see the road signs as we come into Diagonal from the west.  Good thing we don’t live in the city!  Why, there’d be a traffic jam at the intersection where the undecided person sat ad infinitum reading signs trying to determine which one points where!

This conglomeration of signs pointing every which way has to be one of the best comparisons of the churches’ description of “how to get to heaven”.  Each…

A number of years ago, we began to consider buying a couple of horses.  After much research and consideration, last October we took the plunge.  We purchased a team of Halflingers, a breed the height of a standard bred horse, but broader and more muscular like Belgians lending them to both pleasure riding and strength to…

As a young girl, I saw a magazine ad for a “free” first-aid kit.  I painstakingly filled out the request card and quickly placed it in the mail box.  I could hardly wait for the kit to arrive!  I clearly recall the day a salesman showed-up on our door-step asking for Bonnie Jones.  When he discovered that his potential client was an elementary aged school-girl, he was not a happy camper.  While I didn’t quite understand why he was so disturbed, my older siblings evidently got…

When my son, Jake was a young boy, I would hold him in my arms to comfort him while he cried about whatever or whoever had hurt him.  Once he settled down enough to listen, I would stroke his little face, look into his big blue eyes and remind him, “Buddy, I know it hurts, but God uses these kinds of situations to build character in us.”  One day he responded to my assurance of God’s sovereignty in such things by saying, “Mommy, don’t you think that…