Anna M. Aquino

  If you have read my blogs for a while now, you know that I take some time off when I travel in the summer and also around the holidays.   This year is no different.   My family and will be having some much needed time with family and friends in the North.   My prayer is that God rejuvenates and speaks to us in the ways of direction as only He can.   We pray that we are used by God to touch those we come in contact.   Usually I write the New Year blog right at the first of the year, but this year will be a little different.   I wanted to write it now, and I hope it is encouraging to many who read it.   Last year I prophesied that 2013 would be a year what was unseen would become seen.   I certainly saw that happening in various arenas.   From the IRS scandal, to various other controversies what was already being done was brought to the surface.   We saw this happen in our own lives too in several avenues.   Persona...

When Dan and I first met, he did not have a bed to sleep on. Long story short he had plans to get one once he was settled but that took some extra time doing and an extra move. Eventually he purchased a queen-sized futon. It is weird sometimes the things one can become sentimentally attached to in life. That futon was our first couch after we were married. When we moved across country, we rolled the mattress up in the back seat and slept on it until the rest of it made the journey. It was my oldest daughter’s first bed after she had outgrown the crib and she did not like her bed. It spent some time in my youngest daughter’s nursery. I can easily think of half a dozen memories. That futon had been good to us. We knew it was time to let it go. We have gotten a bit more furniture over the years, and we just did not have the space for it. Therefore, despite the small paint smudges on the armrests from Dan when he was in art school, we sold it on Craiglist. It went to someon...