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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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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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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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Who Am I?
It took me way to many years to overcome feelings of being ugly, unlovable, unwanted and insecure. My worth was based on the approval of others and their acceptance of me rather than on the unchanging truth of God’s Word. What transformed me is studying and memorizing scripture passages that tell me who I am…
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Simple Joys and Living to Glorify God
“Have nothing in your home that you do not know to be useful or believe to be beautiful.” William Morris 1880 We recently downsized and I am evaluating what are the things in my life that detract from the passions, gifts and purposes God has for my life. I am considering quotes like this but…
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Goodbyes, Hellos and Physical Limitations
The last couple months has been a mix of MCAS, EDS and arthritis flares, loss of my faithful companion Dexter and getting a new companion. Spring is the season of weather always in flux, lots of rain showers and high pollen counts. In addition I began going into the world in late March after 13…
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