Several years ago, my daughter got several new pairs of pants. Since she is like her mother, she is height challenged. All of her pants needed to be hemmed. Thankfully, my Aunt Shirley was able to help us out and came to measure my daughter to know how to hem them. She brought a stepping […]
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*Originally Written in 2017 I do my best to be an encourager to those whom God places in my life. I feel like everyone needs to be encouraged at some point or another. In fact, the way things seem to be going lately, almost everyone I know is struggling with something in their lives and
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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I have been going through a class called The Grace Course which is a part of the Freedom in Christ class I help lead. I have been through Freedom in Christ many times now, but a few years ago was my first time going through The Grace Course. It was and is a really great
I am one of those people who love to read, and one of the things I really enjoy reading is Scripture. I personally think God created me to be a nerd who loves words because He meant for me to turn around and use them for His glory. I pray with all my heart that
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What Was Really Left Behind In That Tomb My daughter and I love the animated movie Pilgrim’s Progress. One of my favorite scenes is when the burden is finally lifted from Christian’s back and rolls into the empty tomb. It is such a beautiful picture of what happens to our burdens. As I watched it
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Exodus 11, Luke 14: His Ways Looks Different In Exodus 11, God gives Joshua the plan to defeat the city of Jericho. It was a very unusual battle plan, and I often wonder what Joshua thought when he heard it. The Lord told him that the Israelites were to walk around the city once each
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To everything there is a season, and a time to every purpose under heaven. Ecclesiastes 3:1 One unseasonably warm day at the end of January, my daughter, who was four at the time, and I decided to take advantage of the nice weather by going for a walk. It was a lovely day and we
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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When we were teenagers, my brother had a black lab named Missy. She was one of the best dogs I’ve ever known, and she loved my brother dearly. We lived out in the country and Missy amused herself doing different things during the day while he was gone. However, there was really only one thing
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