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God’s Gifts in Waiting
Waiting is a part of everyone’s life at some point or another. For those like myself who deal with chronic illnesses, we spend much time waiting. We are waiting for a diagnosis, waiting for test results, waiting for insurance to approve a procedure or treatment, waiting to get into a specialist and waiting to feel…
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Too Wonderful
Too Wonderful(Based on Psalm 139:5-6) Wonderful thoughts so much higher than mine;Incomprehensible, awesome and divine.Omniscient, all knowing, I cannot hide.Surrounding, He hems me in on all sides. Protecting, providing and guiding me;There’s no place or action He can’t see.Faithful, sovereign for me He has a planFulfilled by His providential hand. Deborah G. Peabody May 21,…
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Sufficient – My Word of the Year for 2023
In December I began praying and seeking God for my word for 2023. I gave up resolutions and began doing a word of the year in 2009. Each year God faithfully directs me to my word by New Year’s Eve. The words, while being very varied, help me focus on an area to grow in…
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Where the Red Sea Parts
I met a new friend, who Gail, in recent months who relocated from several states away. She and her husband attend my church and have joined our small group. Gail has multiple health issues going on yet exudes such joy and as faith and obviously lives in such a way that you know she finds…
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Jesus Christ Prays For Us
I find it so very precious that Jesus, the Son of God, and part of the triune God, prays for you and me.
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Canine Capers and Autumn Ponderings
Bella and Tozer are a relationship of opposites. Bella is petite, mature and fluffy white Bichon Frisée huntress that rules with a Napoleonic attitude yet her body melts into whoever is loving on her. Tozer is black, curly, energetic, gangly, adolescent standard poodle while intelligent he is unaware of his body size and all of…
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Conversing with God in My Garden
I am harvesting the last of our summer garden on a brisk fall day as I dig our carrots. The azure blue skies and sunshine are deceiving from inside but out here my summer warm weather body is shivering even in my lightweight jacket feeling every bit of that 41 degrees. My dirt clad hands…
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Three Ways I Live with Chronic Illness
I was wondering how faith helps others to deal with chronic disease. My counselor recently shared a letter with me from an older woman who has dealt with health issues all her life. While very encouraging, I realized many of my things that helped me are different than hers. My top three are: 1. Practicing…
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Imperfectly Beautiful
When you have chronic illnesses life is not predictive or perfect but I am choosing to make it be imperfectly beautiful. Once again I wake with a pounding head, cloudy brain, swollen face and aching bones. I sigh with disappointment as I realize I have once again ruined our plans for swimming and canoeing with…
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Finding God’s Path for Me in this Crazy World
Recently I was pondering what is God’s path for my life in the midst of all this craziness of life with pandemic, divisions, racial tensions and shortages. What I ended up doing was compiling a list of verses that dealt with His directing me and helping me navigate through this life until I join Him…
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Keep my Soul Happy & Nourished
I saw more clearly than ever, that the first great and primary business to which I ought to attend every day was, to have my soul happy in the Lord. The first thing to be concerned about was not, how much I might serve the Lord, how I might glorify the Lord; but how I…
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