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Even The Trees Praise God
As I sit still at the edge of the glistening lake and listen to the soft wind blowing though the trees, I feel the warmth of the sun against my cheeks, and ponder over the seminar I just heard. My thoughts are in wonder. Wonder in my surroundings, Gods creation and how we humans can learn so much from even the trees. I look up and can’t help but wonder about the trees pointing upward, toward heaven, toward God. The trees just stand there, tall, sharing their beauty, making air, providing food, giving life. Wind and fire strengthen them as they depend on each other to hold them up through…
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Happiness
I started out the year 2024 with the subject of Gods Names. I started sharing a weekly Bible study on Facebook. I started a monthly blog on my website. I…I…I…my It’s now June and I have already fizzled out. Partly from writers block and partly from self doubt. In my mind, this “self doubt” is actually mistrusting God. I will be the first one to admit I am not a famous writer, not even a talented author. But I will say, I totally enjoy writing. I enjoy sharing my thoughts and opinions to help encourage and lift others up. I also know God gave me this desire and the vision…
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Love, Forgiveness and the Armor of God Story Blog- The End
As this fictional blog story comes to an end, I will say that it has been a healing blog for me. I hope and pray that this blog story has somehow helped a reader or two with their own healing. I started out this blog story in a desperate attempt to share my frustrations with others and to help others in this same situation know they are not alone. But God, as He often does, healed and taught me to forgive, let go, love, and enjoy the positive. For God loves us all, no matter who we are. God wants us to love Him and worship and obey Him. We…
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Love-Fall Review of the Word of the Year 2023
Reading over my 2022 year end blog, I’m reminded that I chose the Word “Love” for my 2023 word of the year. I started off my 2023 Facebook group, “Prayer, Reading And Travel”, by trying to encourage weekly online Bible studies about “Love”. My prayer is that encouragement, support, peace, truth, and “Love” will reach at least one person. Hopefully more, but at least one. Jesus died for every single human, that ever was, is, and ever will be. That’s means you! I want to start a Fall Bible study open to all who are interested. I would love the interaction, but that is a personal preference of yours, whether…
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Happy Mothers Day 2022!
I want to tell you a story of when I made Mother of the Year at our church. No, this is not a bragging story about myself. This is a story of self pity, a lack of faith, and listening to the enemy. This is a true story and happened many years ago. Back when we had three boys. A set of twins and a single. I was homeschooling them at that point in time, the twins were in second grade and our single in kindergarten. To give some backstory, I had always wanted a girl. I had a girls name picked out since I can remember. With having three…
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To Old To Be About Gods Kingdom?
I’m old, yes, but I’m not going to tell you how old. Old enough that my children are all grown and have families of their own. Old enough to remember when I was my children’s age, how crazy busy it was working in the church, raising our family, working a full time job, volunteering, and well…being busy! I remember at one point being on the church’s nominating committee. I remember hearing reports of the older people in our church, my age now, refuse the invitation to be a servant in the church. I remember one particular comment, “I’ve paid my dues.” I thought it was sad then and think it is…
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WARNING!!! DANGER!!!
I’ve just cleaned up my website blogs! 40,000 spam comments throughout all 218 blogs! First, let me apologize if any of these spam comments caused any of you discomfort or inconvenience! AND let me apologize because IF you did leave a comment on the website it did get deleted. I now have a program in place to keep away the spam, however the 40,000 were approved so I manually took them off. Needless to say all of the comments got deleted. Most of the spam were ads or junk, but quite a few were nasty and offensive. This being said, I’ve spent some time looking over my blogs these past…
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Book Review by Debbie Hymer: Dangerous Virtues
Dangerous Virtues John Koessler Let me start off by saying this book is not an easy read. Let me explain. I am not a highly educated person but, I have a fair amount of education, some college and plenty of life experience. I can read a book with words not in my vocabulary and provocative thoughts however, it is a slow and cumbersome experience. Not a reading experience I typically enjoy. This book does have that type of content to be fair. The reasoning behind my explanation in the first sentence of this review has more to do with its convicting and deep, thought provoking content. The writer has written…
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Book Review by Debbie Hymer: Motherhood Without All the Rules
Motherhood Without All the Rules Maggie Combs All my life I have been confused by pride and self-doubt. This is a hard lesson to understand and fully comprehend, and an even harder lesson to learn and move forward positively. Maggie Combs book, “Motherhood Without All the Rules” touches on this concept and opens our eyes on the truths. Instead of being filled with guilt, and instead of being filled with pride, Maggie gently leads the reader to being filled with God’s Grace. To living in a relationship with our Heavenly Father. Raising four children, I have struggled with many of the topics Maggie touches on. Though I have learned by…