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Have you ever pondered that commonly used phrase, 'I need to find out who I am'? Well, so do I and I feel like an insignificant brown wren on a feeding table for parrots. All the food is aimed at parrots. There are big pieces of corn and sunflower seeds and other big...
The course had been rocky. As a beginning rider, I had never purposefully done canter-jumping, and I had only occasionally done more than one jump at a time. But here I was, seated on Sir Steven, in the middle of the ring with 12 other contenders, riding an...
"But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, 23 gentleness and self-control. Against such things there is no law." (Galatians 5:22,23) In Savannah, Ga. There is a well known eating establishment called Mrs. Wilkes...
"And this is my prayer: that your love may abound more and more in knowledge and depth of insight, 10 so that you may be able to discern what is best and may be pure and blameless until the day of Christ, 11 filled with the fruit of righteousness that comes through...
"Clap your hands, all you nations; shout to God with cries of joy." (Ps 47:1 NIV) I have been exercising a lot more lately. I am not talking about those push-ups and sit-ups I do in the morning, either. The exercise I am talking about lasts all day long and makes me...
"Yea, all of you be subject one to another, and be clothed with humility: for God resisteth the proud, and giveth grace to the humble." (1 Peter 5:5) When growing up, the elderly were to be respected no matter how bad, childish, or mean they behaved ... also toward...
Throughout the Bible, there is evidence of another world; that humans have physically gone there, that we have been visited by others from that world, and that physical evidence has been left behind from this other world. We call this world Heaven. But, it is nothing...
"In his heart a man plans his course, but the Lord determines his steps." (Proverbs 16:9) Have you ever been in a swimming pool, and tried to swim against the flow of the water jets? Or been in the ocean, and tried to swim against the direction of the current? It is a...
Dear Diary, This evening, I glanced at a phone number and remembered it without looking twice. And, I made myself a note .. and remembered those numbers without looking again; two times in the same day! They were appreciated reminders that life is, finally, getting a...
"Not only so, but we also rejoice in our sufferings, because we know that suffering produces perseverance; perseverance, character; and character, hope. And hope does not disappoint us, because God has poured out his love into our hearts by the Holy...
"Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For my yoke is easy and my burden is light." (Matthew 11: 28-30) Often, as I...
A wise man built his house upon a rock and the rain came tumbling down.The rain came down and the floods went up and the house on the rock stood firm. How often as children at Sunday school , we sang these very words and now as adults live this very...
“Come near to God and He will come near to you.” (James 4-8 NIV) Our heavenly Father desires to have an intimate love relationship with each one of His children. We were created for fellowship with God and nothing else will fill that longing in our hearts for Him. We...