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Ever wish you could be three places at once? Now that takes real talent. It is the ultimate in multitasking to be able to do three things at one time, but to be three places at once is impossible. Or so I thought, until the day I found myself not just in three places...
"...may all who seek you rejoice and be glad in you." (Psalm 40:16 and Psalm 70:4) How difficult it was to be still long enough for one of the beautiful butterflies to land on the back of my granddaughter's hand! She desperately wanted one of these elusive creatures...
I think the word 'Fox' became very popular after the brothers from Norway put a significant effort of making a groovy song, 'What does the Fox say?' Now the word 'Fox' in Norwegian simply means Marijuana, and I assume if anyone takes the 'fox', they go...
I sat beside a delightful lady at a recent prayer gathering. She related with passion each of the steps of her healing from a devastating car accident. “The healing was miraculous,” she said. Broken bones healed with no need for casts, cuts on her face healed with no...
I blew kisses and waved good-bye at my two grandkids. They waved back from the back seat. “Remember,” I called out, “no more, no less.” In her high-pitched voice, my eight-year-old granddaughter called back, “No more, no less, Nana.” That’s our secret code. It began...
There are certain things that we know that we know that we know. We know that spring will eventually come. We know the sun will come up in the morning and go down at night. We know that a bed or a couch will hold us up. We know that if we are hungry, food will satisfy...
Over the past five lessons, we have learned how decorating for Christmas can draw us nearer to the One Who Christmas is all about: * In the hanging of the ornaments, we remember the blessings of God on our families; * In the Nutcrackers, we remember that God is our...
Last year, I sat in the passenger's seat while my friend drove through the crowded parking lot in a shopping mall during the Christmas season. "Did you see what that guy did?" she screamed, "He pulled right in front of me." I gasped, more frightened by her frantic...
I cut the tip of my index finger slicing lemons the other day. It was a deep cut, and naturally, it bled everywhere. I bandaged it up and proceeded to go about my day, only to discover that the finger got in the way for everything I tried to do. Even though it was a...
"'For I know the plans I have for you,' declares the LORD, 'plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.'" (Jeremiah 29:11) I had felt like life is just one big series of closings. Dissolution of the corporation that year played out...
"The heavens declare the glory of God; the skies proclaim the work of his hands. Day after day they pour forth speech; night after night they display knowledge. There is no speech or language where their voice is not heard. Their voice goes out into all the earth,...
"I am the Lord...I am about to do something new. See, I have already begun! Do you not see it? I will make a pathway through the wilderness. I will create rivers in the dry wasteland." (Isaiah 43:16-19) This past Sunday we were challenged to look inwardly, honestly...
"...they will be called ‘sons of the living God.’” (Rom 9:26) With the ever increasing speed of change in today’s world I have to admit that for the first time I am beginning to feel my age. When I was a boy being online meant helping my Mom hang up my jeans on the...