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Back Up with Confidence!

  • September 8, 2020
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Census taking in rural America is quite an adventure. For the past couple of weeks I’ve been one of those pesky people knocking on your door to ask for information you would prefer not to share. Some responses have been interesting, some pretty normal, some insulting and others quite bizarre. I’ve driven approximately 60-80 miles a day looking for “grey house on CR-4140” or “RR 1 – no mailbox – brick home” or my personal favorite “FM-1550 house in pasture”....

Silver Linings

  • August 24, 2020
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So, yes, I’ve done it before, but here I am sitting down to do it again. Take words from one of my favorite hymns, and write about them. Sing and be happy. Simple instructions which will ultimately help and encourage us all to live a Christ-filled life. Last time, we focused on the chorus. But here, for our part two, I would like to mention a phrase from the first verse which I have often found myself reminiscing on. It...

Eyes: The Anchor to the Soul

  • August 24, 2020
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The past couple of weeks we have been back in school after 5 months of being separated.   Things are different than they were March 13th.   A few items: Each morning we “log” any symptoms and enter with a green check.  My classroom set-up is “spread” out for us to be socially distanced. The greeting into the class is with a squirt of sanitizer. The end of class is spent cleaning so the next group can come in with germs limited.  ...

Closing Chapters…

  • August 4, 2020
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Have you ever needed to close chapters in your life?  Sometimes it’s simple.  It was a great chapter but it’s time to move on.  Another may have been painful but you learned a lot and the time was right to turn the page.  Then you have those chapters you go back and re-read because there was/is so much there.  You analyze every sentence to learn as much as you can before closing. Some chapters closed because you had no control...

God and the Waves

  • July 27, 2020
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Last week we just needed away.  A family friend graciously offered a place to stay in the panhandle of Florida and we packed up and spent a few days on the Emerald Coast with the pure white sand.  This is one of our FAVORITE PLACES.  The kids LOVE playing in the water, exploring, building sand castles and sea creatures, taking sunset walks and crab hunting at night. Oh…and the fresh seafood.   A couple of days during our stay, the ocean...

Sing and Be Happy

  • July 21, 2020
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Often we sing this song in church. It used to be one of my favorites, probably because it was the one I first remembered learning. But I have discovered this song has a deeper meaning to me now than it did in 2019, or any year before. You have heard everyone say it, but I will type it yet again. 2020 will be a year to remember; and not necessarily for good reasons. This song has become very helpful and...

The Blessing Of COVID-19

  • July 13, 2020
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We have been bombarded since March with negative news, dire predictions, financial hardships, and an unsettling uncertainty for the future. Personally, I have struggled with anxious and racing thoughts. I am still mired in uncertainty and overwhelmed feelings planning for a new school year. But what does this look from Heaven’s point of view? What if our forced quarantine, time off, shutdown was a gift to our weary generation? We have oft thought that we were the busiest generation in...

The Sound of Silence…

  • July 6, 2020
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In 1964, Kitty Genovese was murdered in New York City.  She was stabbed and raped on her doorstep.  A neighbor, Karl Ross, heard noises and cracked his door to see what was happening.  He promptly shut the door and called a friend to ask what he should do.  The friend told him to not get involved.  Eventually Mr. Ross climbed out of his apartment window and went to his friends home.  It was there he finally called the police.  When...

Remember who you are and whose you are…..

  • June 29, 2020
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Youth sports. For our family:  our two oldest boys play.  The youngest one (a girl)–hasn’t necessarily expressed all that much interest but put her in the gym and she does want a basketball in her hand (which makes this basketball coaching momma happy). We try and balance.  It is tough.  It can be demanding and some weeks it takes up probably more time than we would like.  But our boys love it–whether in the gym with a basketball or on...

A Gift From God; Purpose

  • June 23, 2020
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Having purpose is Something I used to ponder, especially when I was little. How could something, maybe small or usually forgotten have a very important purpose or reason for existence? You hear it a lot when talking about mosquitos or other nuisances. Normally, people are quick to question why such a creature should ever live, even if they never knew how it could contribute to life. But what I believe is interesting, and something we should all think about often,...