Daily Musings
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But, she called me fat!
What do you get when an effortlessly well-behaved child and the church’s resident troublemaker end up in a fight? A front-row seat to one of God’s favorite teaching moments. In this episode, we recount the rather unexpected honor of breaking up a scuffle between two little girls, let’s call them Ginger and Sage. The differences
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Army of the Free
My veteran kid went back to military service after six years of serving and two years in civilian life. He does not like the civilian work culture. To be honest, neither do I. Mind you, I have never served in the military — but I did go to Catholic school. That counts for something, right?
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Evidence of love
I’m sure many of you are familiar with the book, The 5 Love Languages by Gary Chapman, which explores the different ways people give and receive love. As I sat down to write this morning, my mind wandered to a sweet memory from the past—back to when my soon-to-be husband first told me he loved
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You are royalty
One of my older dogs that outweighs the others and has a mean bite is one of the most docile dogs on the face of this earth. Her normal state is submissive, pulled back, mellow and stress-free. She lets the other dogs bully her and puts up a weak fight when they are incessant. I
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Where is your sting?
This world does not provide us access to our good Lord as easily as it does to evil. The fact remains that as Christians, we are constantly going to be under attack. Jesus won the war for us, but Satan needs to get his last pound of flesh, so he is going to do everything
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I know what I know
Not too long ago I was hanging out with a group of young adults. They have a bright future ahead of them and the world is their oyster. As the conversation was progressing, I noticed that my advice or my intelligent counterpart’s advice was being rejected. My brain naturally took me to a place of
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Trust and Obey
Listening, inclining, heeding, obeying, these are all derived from a Hebrew word, Shema. It is a loaded word, does not just mean listen. Google describes it as listening with intent to take action, respond and submit to what is heard. ‘4 “Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one!‘ -Deuteronomy 6:4 There are many references to obey in the
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Peaks and Valleys
For those of you following along, I have been missing my scheduled blog entries. They average about 5 a week, but yours truly has not listened to her own advice. I succumbed to the negative thoughts that the world threw at me and strayed. The first Bible verse that popped in my head when I
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Suit up!
Have you had the pleasure of living through a hurricane? Doing preparatory work to board up the house, bring in supplies and hunker down, waiting for the hurricane to pass? Boarding up the house ensures that the weak entry points do not cause structural failure, breach the house and cause flooding when flying objects are
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I feel. No, I think. No, I feel.
Heart is the source of emotions and mind the source of logic. God wrote the law on our hearts. Why our hearts? I think, because the heart tucks away beautiful, everlasting emotions that are not necessarily logical. For instance, why do I like kids? They are selfish, defiant, germ bags. But all the reason cannot