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There's a man living in our church parking lot . . .
Yup, he showed up a little over a week ago and asked if he could live out of his van at our church. After checking him out with the Sheriff's Department we said, "sure." He's a nice man--came to Sunday School and stayed for the service last week. He's a traveling...
What labor will you choose?
It's Labor Day. A day that has become little more than an extra day off from work for many people. But when it was instituted in 1882, it was meant to celebrate the working man. Peter J. McGuire, general secretary of the Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners and a...
Sooooo many wonderful books!
September is just loaded with new releases that I'm eager to read. My only problem is pacing myself so I can get some writing done as well. Congratulations to some of my favorite authors on your new babies! Love's Reckoning - Laura Frantz - On a bitter December day in...
Bees and Bears
Mama's cubs are growing fast. They've grown from roly poly little balls of fluff to bears about half the size of their mother. Fall is a great time for bears with good things to eat like apples, grapes, acorns, hickory nuts and . . . bees! Yup, one of my favorite...
Everybody's talking at me . . .
An article in Scientific American cited a study that showed people speak an average of around 16,000 words a day (men a little under, women a little over). Holy cow. I knew I could talk, but that much? Imagine what happens when I do one of my speaking engagements....
Advice from a six-year-old
Sunday's sermon admonished us to allow God to mold us--to fulfill his plan through us. It was a good sermon and I'm taking it to heart. But, as can often happen, the real meat of the morning came during the children's sermon. Our pastor asked the children gathered...
It's been one of those weeks . . .
It's been a crazy, hectic week. I commented on it to a friend and he agreed he was having a similar experience. "The kind of week that makes you want to fake your own death," he said. I laughed and laughed and laughed. Yes, exactly. But Saturday is nearly here and...
Poetry Wednesday!
In The Memory of Drowning one of the characters is afraid to try for another child after suffering a miscarriage. I'm astonished by the number of women who have faced this tragedy. I talked to friends who had gone through this so that I would have an inkling of what...
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