Tag: Devotional
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Season’s Readings: TBR in December
December is an interlude in the year; separate from all the other seasons. There is autumn until Thanksgiving, then Christmas, and really winter doesn’t start until January. I like winter well enough, I’m always ready for it when it comes around, but not thinking it’s winter until January makes it seem shorter. In December, I…
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Improving Your Serve: The Art of Unselfish Living
Improving Your Serve: The Art of Unselfish Living by Charles Swindoll 1981, 212 pages This book can be summed up in Matthew 20:28: Just as the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give his life a ransom for many. “Since Jesus Christ, the Son of God, took…
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Serving Size: As Needed
We are half way through the year. Are you remembering your word of the year? Or did you choose a word this year? It’s not too late! My friend and I are sharing a book called One Word One Year Faith Journey. She had passed it to me the other day and I got a…
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Timeless Summer Reads: Connecting Past and Present
The air wafting through my open window has a special feel today. It’s drowsy, dreamy and transportive. It is blowing from some far away childhood summer afternoon, and brings with it the feelings and thoughts of those days, taking me back to imaginary summers long before I was born. It brings timeless thoughts and feelings…
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Old Things Are Passed Away
In Sunday School, several comments were made how the Easter story was so special at this time of year, how they loved the Easter season and what it meant to them. Had I been thinking about it at all beyond inviting the family for dinner? I felt an urgent need to focus on the season.…
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6 Life-Changing Books for Happiness
Some books you read once and forget. Others stay on my shelves and get referenced many times. Just seeing their titles reminds me of the mental perspective shifts I got while reading them and how much better my life is for following their advice. The Bible will always top this list but that feels like…
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Your Work is Important, Homemakers
If you want to go out and do great things this year, you will need a place to start from. You will need a place to come back to for refreshment and rest. One of the greatest things about home is the fact that you have one. Here are the books and the chair and…
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Calm My Anxious Heart
Imagine what your life would be like without worry. Is this even a realistic possibility? Linda Dillow, in Calm My Anxious Heart, says it is. You can start the journey today. What are your worries? These days, I tend to worry about my children: Will they be able to be faithful? Will they have their…
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Valleys Lead to Higher Ground
At my sister’s funeral several years ago, the minister at the graveside talked about walking through the valley of the shadow of death. He said we would all be walking that valley as we grieved the loss of her life. But he reminded us that the God of all hope would be with us and…
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Jeanette Lockerbie [Author Spotlight]
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I hope you have heard of the book Salt in my Kitchen by Jeanette Lockerbie. It is a small devotional book written by Mrs. Lockerbie and is such a neat book to have around. Jeanette Lockerbie was born in Scotland and spent her adult years in Canada and the United States. She has written nearly forty books,…
So She Reads 