This morning, I reached a huge milestone when I wrote down my 20,000th gift in my gratitude journal. I was so excited, I even shared about it on my social media. It was a great moment, but my excitement took a hit shortly afterwards. I went from rejoicing to grieving in a very short period […]
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Waiting Well If you have taken any classes with me or have known me for very long at all, you will know that I love words. You will know that I love to look up the meaning of words so that I can better understand them. One of the words I recently spent a little
His Grace Is Sufficient For several weeks now, there has been a Bible verse that God has continually brought to my attention. If not the entire verse, then at least the main theme of it has caught my attention at some point nearly every day for weeks. That verse is 2 Corinthians 12:9. “And He
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I have mentioned before that since I live in an apartment, I do my best to grow a few vegetables in containers during the summer. I recently discovered a new plant growing beside one of my tomato plants. It was a tiny oak tree growing from an acorn likely buried by one of the squirrels
Darkness vs. Light My daughter and I were traveling down a road near a friend’s house recently and were looking at the sky around us. On one side of us, the sky was getting darker and darker. The clouds were starting to look rather ominous. The other side was still bright and beautiful. Light filled
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I was reading something written by a pastor recently and he pointed to a verse in Jeremiah that isn’t often studied. Jeremiah was praying to the Lord and asking a few “why” questions. Jeremiah 12:5 is the first part of God’s response to Him. “If you have run with the footmen and they have tired
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I have a habit of copying Scriptures that I am studying, trying to memorize, or simply just need to remember. I usually have them written on index cards or small pieces of paper scattered around my home. Sometimes I take Scriptures and personalize them and either use them as a prayer or as a reminder
Trust the Pilot I was listening to a pastor recently and he told a story that another pastor has shared. The pastor had talked about a flight he had taken during which they had experienced a lot of turbulence when they encountered a storm. He talked about how rough it had been and admitted that
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Do you ever read something that makes you have to stop and think about it for a minute or two? (Or even longer!) I read something recently that did this to me, and I confess, it also convicted me. It was talking about worry and it said that the root of the word worry is
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