Tag: prayer
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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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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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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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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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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).
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Please hold….
God NEVER puts us on hold.
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Dad, you are missed.
I love you a bushel and a peck and a hug around the neck!
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Transformation is not for sissies
“There is nobody else that you can trust more than Him, or that wants more for you than He does. He WANTS to TRANSFORM you, from glory to glory”
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His timing, not mine…
Gods timing is always perfect. To quote my husband, “If you want to get used to something, get used to that because it’s never going to change.” Today we were in the right place at the right time. My friend’s sweet daughter was driving her car and a deer ran out and crashed into the…