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Continue reading →: Give a chicken?
Here’s a great way to give this Christmas! http://www.gfamedia.org/video/videoplayer.swf Redeeming the time
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Continue reading →: Day 1 Advent Meditations
“Don’t be impatient for the LORD to act! Travel steadily along his path.” Psalm 37:34a NLT There was a long wait between the Promise of Genesis 3:15 and His arrival in John 1:14. Nevertheless waiting on the LORD and traveling steadily along His path paid off… He came, just as…
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Continue reading →: I’m laboring in love and inspired by this Labor of Love
I’m getting ready for the Holiday Expo, working on the gift I want to give to maybe YOU! 🙂 And I’m also laboring in love with my kiddos today, decking our halls and putting out the nativity scene, along with starting a Jesse tree to prepare for celebrating the advent…
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Continue reading →: I surrender all
In light of the Elizabeth Elliot post, when this song came on my ipod just now as I was laundering the same clothes I’ve washed daily for months, I was illuminated. Putting those clothes in the washer I sang, “I will ever love and trust You Lord and in Your…
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Continue reading →: From Elizabeth Elliot
Sunday Morning Sunday mornings can be a real test of a mother’s sanctification, especially if her husband happens to be a pastor who leaves the house much earlier than the rest of the family. Here’s how it went recently in one house (you’re free to speculate on whose): “The fifteen-year-old…
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Continue reading →: Where do I, a sinner, fit in the Bible?
Do you ever read passages in the Bible like, “LORD, who may abide in Your tabernacle? Who may dwell in Your holy hill? He who walks uprightly and works righteousness, and speaks truth in his heart…” (Psalm 15:1-2), and think, “Okay, I guess I’m out! I want to walk uprightly…
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Continue reading →: A Day of Gratitude- Today I’m not going to ask why… I’m just going to give thanks!
(Read more Day of Gratitude posts at the Cafe) Lori at All You Have to Give made the above graphic. The quotes on it remind me how easily I forget how important simply giving thanks is! “If the only prayer you said in your whole life was thank you that…
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Continue reading →: Not comparing ourselves to others
Maybe you’re like me. Michael’s, Hobby Lobby, and Joanne’s all mind as well be horror shops! You walk in, you think everything is real intriguing and pretty, but the thought of buying various pieces of paper, or buttons, beads or trinkets and then whipping them up into some gorgeous, usable,…
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Continue reading →: Advent Conspiracy and a "pay it forward" challenge
Advent Conspiracy Have you seen this video? It’s the desire of my heart to give the only thing of value I have to give… the life of Christ poured out of me in my surrendered life to others, and to teach my kids to do the same. This video spoke…
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Continue reading →: Are you kissing the Son with your life?
I love looking at the original meanings of key words in scripture. Recently the Lord brought to mind one such meaning I’d studied: “But the time is coming and is already here when true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and in truth. The Father is looking for anyone…
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