TO HEAR ABOUT FUTURE BLOGS AND UPDATES FOLLOW ON:  “MOUNTING WITH WINGS” FACEBOOK PAGE https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100073335840407 Soon after my diagnosis with ALS in October 2019 I received a text from a friend that said: “I know God can use this trial,… Continue reading

A couple months ago Nathan, Micah, and I climbed Pinnacle Mountain near Little Rock. I had been there once before hiking on the East Summit Trail with a few family and friends several years ago, before ALS. We scrambled up… Continue reading

I am beginning to experience more challenges communicating with people and I don’t like it! I have always enjoyed contributing to conversations and talking to people. My husband always tells people that I am the one who can communicate what… Continue reading

Soon after I was diagnosed with ALS, October 2019, I heard that there is such a thing as an “ALS clinic”. It is usually in a big city, scheduled certain days of the week and is set up so a… Continue reading

Our children (including newlyweds Hannah and Jonathan) all went on a mission trip to Mexico for two weeks during Christmas break 2020.  It’s a trip (joining over 80 other people with “Mexico Missions”) that we had enjoyed as a family… Continue reading

Note: Sorry, you haven’t heard from me in awhile! I guess the busyness of planning Hannah’s wedding, the aftermath, Thanksgiving and Christmas have gotten me out of the groove with writing on my blog. But I hope to do better!… Continue reading

Masks!  They are everywhere! We don’t LIKE them, but we tolerate them and have learned to live with them.  It seems ALMOST normal now to see nearly everyone in Walmart walking around with one on! Masks supposedly protect us from… Continue reading

“No one loves me, everybody hates me, I’m gonna just go eat worms!” Do any of you remember hearing this depressing childhood saying? The idea is that when all looks dark, foreboding and overwhelming you can just indulge in a… Continue reading

Why me?  Why did the Lord allow this terrible thing to come to me? Why does a God of love allow things that cause pain to His children when He has the power to “make it all better” and remove… Continue reading

We are living in uncertain and troublous times!  I wonder what the future holds? I don’t believe when I posted my last blog about a month ago that I had even heard the word “coronavirus”. Now I don’t think most… Continue reading