Tag: faith
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Forgiveness and Trauma
We are told to forgive. Teachers, counselors, pastors, parents – all those people who guide us through life teach us about forgiveness. Truthfully, being able to forgive really does help us to move on and move forward with our lives, but what if we try to do it when we aren’t ready, or in such…
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Repentance opens the door
I’m doing some reading in Esther. Someone gave me a book about Esther that I started to read but then realized it was NOT something I wanted to study. Beware the books that masquerade as holy teaching! After deciding this was NOT something I wanted to focus on, I decided to just study the scripture…
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Not Today….
My phone rang and a strange number popped up on the screen. We were at the lake and the area code matched the resort, so I picked it up. My husband’s voice came across the line, sounding breathless and stressed. “Can you bring the keys down to the ramp?” “Of course, love. be right there.”…
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Why am I praying?
Sometimes I think we tend to minimize prayer. We say things like, “I’m sorry I can’t do more right now, but I can pray” or, “All we can do is pray.” What we sometimes fail to understand is that prayer is MIGHTY. It affects so much more than ourselves and the world around us in…
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Missing my grandbabies…
I love to travel and see new places. That being said, I’ve been away from the grandbabies for a bit and I’m REALLY missing them. The girl one is going to be eight in a couple weeks – she’s just so smart and sassy, and I love telling her “dad” jokes. She tends to keep…
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Retirement takes a minute….
My husband Martin and I retired in 2018. I retired involuntarily with a disability, my husband retired voluntarily and with the honor of having served his country and his state for over 30 years, in the military and law enforcement. Two very different sets of circumstances but with the same result – what do we…
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I’m exhausted, but they had fun!
I really do think that the reason we generally don’t have the ability to have children later in life is because God knew our limitations. Seriously, who has the energy to chase toddlers and read with a fidgety 6 year old after the age of 50?!? This last week we took care of the grandkids…
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It doesn’t have to be perfect…and neither do you.
There’s a saying that I like – “God doesn’t call the qualified, He qualifies the called.” When was the last time you were asked to do something that you weren’t trained for nor had experience doing? Does it happen frequently, or is it an occasional blip on the radar? In my experience, it seems that…
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Finding “home” wherever you are
Are you happy enough with your life right now that you can be “home” where you live? Today marks 13 years since I moved away from my hometown of Blythe, CA. While it was a difficult move, it was necessary for my own mental and emotional health. It gave me time to heal and to…
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Fruit or Foliage…you need to choose.
The last couple of days have been spent taming the tomato jungle, clearing the cucumber canopy, and, well, squashing the spread of…wait for it….squash(please forgive the irresistible alliterations).