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My middle daughter is 21 - how did that happened so fast!!

Posted in Daughters, Family, God's faithfulness, Grace, MOPS Mentor, Memories, Mothering, Remember, tagged on April 1, 2008 | No Comments »

The past several weeks at our house have been filled with celebrations - first my birthday, Easter and this past weekend our middle daughter’s 21st birthday!  Even though this is such a cliche, I can’t believe how fast the time has gone since she was born.
Laryssa is such an accomplished young woman; the Lord has gifted her [...]

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Remember the amazement of the empty tomb

Posted in Faith, Grace, tagged , , on March 23, 2008 | 1 Comment »

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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Christ’s call to remember during the last supper

Posted in Faith, God's faithfulness, Grace, MOPS Mentor, Remember, tagged , , on March 19, 2008 | 1 Comment »

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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My Husband ~ Compatible or Completion?

Posted in Faith, Family, Grace, MOPS Mentor, Marriage, Trusting God, tagged , , , on March 11, 2008 | 4 Comments »

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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Reading - the one perk to being sick

Posted in Friends, God's faithfulness, Grace, Remember, Reminders of Faith, Uncategorized, tagged , , , on March 2, 2008 | No Comments »

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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So Many Hurting People - including me!

Posted in Faith, Grace, MOPS Mentor, tagged , , , , , on February 19, 2008 | No Comments »

Year ago, I read a book entitled Joy in the Journey by Guy Douds (no longer in print, but available from Amazon used).  I have never forgotten a portion of his writing as the words written I could completely identify with … He identifies himself this way …
“I definitely am a feeler - an extreme feeler.  I [...]

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