by Marie | Blessings, Devotionals, Faith, Gratitude, Holidays, Hymns, Marie Wells Coutu, Praise, Such a Moment, Thankfulness
It’s Thanksgiving Week and many of us are busily preparing for family get-togethers, a big holiday meal, and perhaps parades or football. And, of course, Black Friday shopping. You may be excited to see family and view the cooking and preparations as fun. Or it...
by Marie | Devotionals, Faith, Gratitude, Marie Wells Coutu, Such a Moment, Thankfulness
It’s Thanksgiving week, complete with turkey, Turkey Trot “races,” parades, football games, and family. This time of year, there’s a lot of public expressions of thankfulness–online, in commercials, on talk shows and news shows. People...
by Marie | Blessings, Faith, Freedom, Gratitude, Holidays, Marie Wells Coutu, Praise, Such a Moment, Thankfulness
As we celebrate the Thanksgiving holiday this week, the praise song “10,000 Reasons (Bless the Lord)” seems especially appropriate. Don’t worry, I’m not going to try listing that many blessings. But given enough time and patience, I’m...
by Marie | Devotionals, Faith, Gratitude, Hearing, Listening, Marie Wells Coutu, Mended Vessels, Such a Moment
My current novel-in-progress features a main character who is deaf, so I’ve been researching hearing loss and how deaf people communicate. I’ve always enjoyed watching an interpreter use American Sign Language, especially during songs at church....
by Marie | Creation, Gratitude, Life, Marie Wells Coutu, Praise, Such a Moment
Iowa’s not flat, after all. And it’s not all cornfields. Most people who don’t live in the Midwest probably know little more about the state of Iowa than what they saw in the movie Field of Dreams, with its classic exchange: A baseball player asks,...
by Marie | Faith, Fathers, Gratitude, Joy, Life, Marie Wells Coutu, Memories, Names of God, security, Such a Moment
With Father’s Day less than two weeks away, my thoughts drift back to one of my favorite childhood memories of my daddy. I had fallen and cut my knee open on a gravel driveway. Today, the injury would probably warrant stitches but our family had no insurance and...
