“I spent all of my childhood pretending I was off somewhere else… off with you on one of your adventures! My own adventure turned out to be quite different.” This is a line from one of my favorite movies, The Lord of the Rings. Frodo Baggins, a young hobbit is talking to his uncle Bilbo,
I was recently reading Ann Voskamp’s devotional companion to her book One Thousand Gifts and she talked about how music is made on a guitar by plucking the string. She explained that “Music is made in stress” and tells how a guitar string has to be moved and pulled tight before it can release music.
I once spent some time with a beautiful lady never dreaming that it was her last day on earth. I had no idea that I would not see her again when I left that day; I only knew she was having a good day. She had smiled at me when I came in and started
I once spent some time talking to a cousin of mine about our ancestors and where they came from. It is a subject that I have always found fascinating, and he was a wealth of information. He has spent a lot of time researching our family history and I was glad to be able to
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It has a purpose. I read something today by Oswald Chambers that really spoke to my heart. It was a passage in My Utmost for His Highest and I would like to share it with you, my friend. “If ever we are going to be made into wine, we will have to be crushed; you
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One night several years ago, while on our way home, my young daughter wanted to know if she had to take a bath when we got home. She told me, “I don’t actually like baths. I like to be clean but I don’t like baths.” It was one of those rare moments when you actually
A little over twenty years ago, when I was a lot younger (and a lot thinner), I went on a canoe trip down a river a few hours from my home. Midway through the trip, we stopped for a while, parked the canoe on the riverbank and waded in the water for a while. I
May I be honest with you, my friend? While Christmas is my absolute favorite time of the year, it is also one of the most difficult times of the year. I confess there are days that I struggle with an overwhelming bout of sadness. This year has been challenging, and I find myself weary from
When we came home from church one Sunday afternoon, we discovered that my Thanksgiving cactus had fallen from the shelf it had been sitting on. I was upset when I saw it and hurriedly put my purse and Bible bag inside so I could pick it up. I was dismayed to find that several branches
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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
