Well, Thanksgiving is over and for many people, the mad rush is on to spend more than they should on the perfect gift that someone might not even want. No wonder so many people fight depression this time of year. There is a better way. Purposely find some quiet time, take a bath and read [...]
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Summer’s secrets are revealed when Autumn winds blow. How much more the secrets of my heart before the wind of the Spirit? I took a walk yesterday and saw a bird’s nest high in a tree. It got my attention because I am walking in a place much more northern than I live. Here the [...]
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It would seem ridiculous that women would have to defend their position to minister in this day and age yet we still have denominations that deny just that. Even if you belong to a group that allows women to minister, there are always questions about certain passages in the Bible that seem to limit their [...]
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I recently joined an online group called FaithWriters. They have a weekly challenge to write on a topic of their selection. This week was on gossip. You could write about it any way you wanted as long as it stayed on topic. Here is my entry. Gossip, slander or just "keeping up-to-date", whatever you call [...]
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When my husband used to teach, there was a question that he always asked his students. He asked them, “What do you believe and why do you believe it?” In other words, ‘some of what I teach you may shake your beliefs. Rather than dismiss it outright, look at the foundation of your beliefs.’ That [...]
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Have you ever stopped to think about what kind of footprints you are leaving? I don’t mean the kind that form when you step into mud but the effect you have on the world around you. Are you making a difference? Sometimes what we do seems so minor that we forget it leaves a lasting [...]
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is the death of His saints…Psalm 116:15 October 15, 2009 my husband and best friend finished his earthly race. Paul and I would have been married 35 years on Dec. 21 and already I miss being able to ask his opinion on things. Like all of us, he had his faults but the best part [...]
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You never know how you will respond to fire until you have to walk through it. It seems like life has had problems lined up for my family to face. Everytime one simmers down into a level of normalcy, another rises up. It has served to keep us slightly off balance. Six months ago our [...]
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Yeah, like the caterpillar turning into the butterfly or the tadpole into the frog. The process goes on whether the critter wants it to or not because the alternative is totally unpleasant. Who knew when my sister gave me this blog that it would speak much more of what God is doing in me than [...]
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Mat 6:31 Therefore take no thought, saying, What shall we eat? or, What shall we drink? or, Wherewithal shall we be clothed? Mat 6:32 (For after all these things do the Gentiles seek:) for your heavenly Father knoweth that ye have need of all these things. Mat 6:33 But seek ye first the kingdom of [...]
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