Joseph Family Easter Photos

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Christian Women Online Spotlight on me!

In the Spotlight at Christian Women Online:
A Closer Look at Bloggers  - and this time it is me!
The Lord has graciously granted me the priveledge to write about my blogging experiences at Christian Women Online - May His name be glorified.
Now I must get back to my MOPS devotions about Loving Your Husbands that I [...]

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A very good weekend

For the first time in my life, my birthday was on Good Friday - and from what I understand it won’t happen again in my life time (if you want to know why, read this article from Crosswalk.com).  I had a very nice weekend celebrating my birthday with my husband, daughters and good neighbor friends. 
The [...]

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Remember the amazement of the empty tomb

The women found the empty tomb - not the disciples, not the guards, not royalty, but the lowly women who loved Christ.  Mary, his mother, Mary Magdalene, Salome, and the other Mary found the tomb empty.  Angels met the women to tell them that “Jesus has risen, He is not here.” Luke 24:6. 
Over the past several weeks, [...]

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Remember the Cross

Cross at Keimuldas in Latvia.

As we await the joy of the empty tomb of Easter morning - remember the cross and the journey our Christ walked with the cross that should have been ours….
 The Wonderful Cross
By Chris Tomlin & Matt Redman
When I survey the wondrous cross
On which the Prince of Glory died
My richest gain I count [...]

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Christ’s call to remember during the last supper

In my favorite book of the gospels, Luke, the story of the last supper Jesus had with his disciples is recorded.  Luke 22: 14-20.  The last supper is a familiar story for most of us; Jesus offering the bread and the wine as a representative of his body that was to be offered for our sins.  In [...]

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Hearts At Home

The last several days I have been at the Hearts at Home conference in Normal, Illinois working with Share HIS Story in their booth. Although, I am completely tired from working 16 hours Friday and 11 today  - I just want to say a little about Hearts at Home. 
This is one of my all time favorite [...]

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My Husband ~ Compatible or Completion?

February at our church is always The Month of the Family.  This month, we enjoyed a special speaker, Bob Barnes of Sheridan House Ministries of Florida.  He was a excellence speaker on family and parenting - I would highly recommend his parenting books.  I know that many of the MOPS moms went to the parenting [...]

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My Mother’s Wall Of Fame

Tomorrow evening, I am hosting our MOPS Moms here for an Ask the Mentor evening.  For the last several years, we have always at a least one Ask the Mentor Meeting at MOPS.  This year, due to other topics in our schedule - it has been moved from a meeting format to my home.  There will [...]

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Reading - the one perk to being sick

Since I have been sick - I have finished 2 books Someday by Karen Kingsbury and Home to Holly Springs by Jan Karon.  Finishing both in the course of a week have left me feeling thankful and lonely - as both of these books contain characters I count as dear friends. 
Karen Kingsbury has a way of [...]

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