Category: Gratitude
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We Want It Now God
We want it now God. Healing for our loved ones. Not in a little while longer. It’s already been too long. They need energy for work. To earn a living. To pay the medical bills and restock the drained savings account. Energy to play with their children. They want to…
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Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Fashion
I’ve always wanted to participate in a word-of-the-day or photo challenge on WordPress. While I think of an idea or even pull up a photo, a busy schedule usually sets me on another path and the challenge is over before I can post! Today, I’m joining in for Cee Cee’s…
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The Book of Kells🇮🇪
Moving on to Ireland, one of our first stops was to visit The Book of Kells at Trinity College in Dublin. We learned that this book contains the four gospels, created by monks in the 9th century. Historians appear to struggle with where exactly it was created but believe locations…
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Scotland Blooms…with Spurgeon Gratitude
“May gratitude to God permeate my entire life.” Charles Spurgeon These are a few blooms that were outside the Blairquhan Castle in Scotland.
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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…
Tales from a Mid-Lifer 