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GOODBY 2025!

  THE YEAR IN REVIEW Goodbye 2025! The door closed in a whirring blur as you exited You were the best of years, and the worst of years! You passed so quickly in a jumble of mixed emotions, blessings, love, troubles, gratitude, uncertainty, faith, challenges, small victories, loss, celebrations, delightful surprises, disappointments and threads of golden joy woven into the strands of the ribbon of life that unfolded through the year. Through all the ups and downs God has been faithful and had our backs holding us [ME] up when we couldn’t hold ourselves up. He has sent people to encourage us, help us, lift us up and support us through the hardest times and to share our joy in the best of times. In January 2025 we got together with all of our kids and grandkids for a weekend at Arrowood Resort in Alexandria MN to celebrate our “Oberg Christmas”. This year we will again get together Saturday January 17, over MLK weekend, but at a hotel here in Fargo instead. (Much easier for Tom and my...
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BY FAITH NOT SIGHT

WE WALK BY FAITH NOT BY SIGHT Coffee With Jesus June 21, 2025 “We walk by faith and not by sight” 2 Corinthians 5:7 Two weeks ago my husband and I went for eye exams. It had been two years since my previous exam. The Optometrist did the usual dilation and exam for serious issues like retinopathy, detached retina, glaucoma, macular degeneration, cataracts, and other issues that someone of our mature ages may experience. I knew I had the beginning of cataracts 2 years ago, but on a recent road trip I really noticed a deterioration in my vision when trying to read exit signs along the freeway.  Reading the computer screen has also been difficult at times due to our downsize from our old desktop to a newer laptop PC. with a screen about one third the size of our large screen on our older computer. Thankfully our trip was on a route that is very familiar to me. Still, it was unnerving when I realized that it made me feel uncomfortable not to read the sign until I was right on top of it....
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