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 […]
One morning several years ago, I was trying to comb and style my daughter’s hair. The bathroom mirror was completely fogged up, and she was unable to see what I was doing. She made a comment about me not being able to see but I assured her that I could see her hair just fine.
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 recently shared with my Sunday school class about a childhood memory of picking blackberries with my grandfather. My grandmother could make some delicious desserts and one of those was a homemade blackberry cobbler. One afternoon, my granddaddy asked her if she would make one if he gathered the blackberries. She agreed and I naively
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I was on my way home from my church one day this week and the sky was filled with gray clouds. It has rained A LOT in my area for the last two months. This is not usual for our part of the south, yet it was about to be another rainy day. The sky
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Walking Through Storms I recently saw a picture on social media of a snow-covered bison. The caption talked about how bison are one of the few animals that walk into a snowstorm. The one who shared the photo said that this was likely because they knew that doing so would get them through it more
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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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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