Category: gratitude
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Vacation!
True friends are few and hard to find. My precious one of 20 years lost her cancer battle and went to be with Jesus three years ago. Her daughter has grown to be my bonus 4th child. There was deep, profound loss and heartbreak that we all endured but God…
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“Old” Hands Gave LIFE
Little children rub their grandparents hands with love. Teenagers sometimes make rude comments about “old people skin”. Such a comment was recently spoken by a random stranger to her friends about an elderly person next to her. The young girl was probably fortunate that it was in speedy-passing without us…
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Grateful for the Few Remaining Drive-Ins!
It’s remained an annual tradition with my family of five. With 22 yr. old twins and a 20 yr. old (along with 10 others we invited this summer), we again drove over an hour to our favorite drive-in for a night of family fun. It’s something that we all look…
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Summer Gifts
My gratitude today….I’m so thankful that God gives us summer joys after really, really long winters. Fresh, local market produce…straight from the farm, no preservatives. No sitting on a truck. No ripening in a greenhouse…summer gifts. Summer rain…Sweet watermelon…“…give thanks to the Lord for He is good…”
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Monday Gratitude: C.S. Lewis
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Silent Sunday-Mother Teresa
“We need to find God, and He cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature – trees, flowers, grass – grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence… We need silence to be able…
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D-Day Celebrations Have Me Thinking About Patriotism
I don’t come from a military family, nor was I raised with any real political discussion or thoughts about country. Yet, in my twenties I started paying attention to history and even more so in the last decade, I’ve grown to be highly patriotic. There was no significant reason why…
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