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~ mustard seed in bed of seeds ~ “The just shall live by faith.” ~ Habakkuk 2:4 ~ “If you continue to love Jesus, nothing much can go wrong with you, and I hope you may always do so. I’m so thankful that you realized the ‘hidden story’ in the Narnian books. It is odd, children nearly always do, grown…
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“The Lord watches over the foreigner and sustains the fatherless and the widow, but he frustrates the ways of the wicked.” ~ Psalm 146:9 ~ “Enemy-occupied territory-that is what this world is. Christianity is the story of how the rightful king has landed, you might say landed in disguise, and is calling us all to take part in a great…
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Yes, Christmas is over but I leave the wreath up until January end; it’s too pretty, adding a bit of cheer to a somewhat bleak terroir to remove too soon. Lightly, also known as Meri Go Lightly, the easy keeper mare requiring TLC, has a nasty habit of eating all the bird seed from the feeder. I have a nasty…
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~ guinea on a roof ~ “Above all else, guard your heart, for everything you do flows from it.“ ~ Proverbs 4:29 ~ “If you do not take the distinction between good and bad very seriously, then it is easy to say that anything you find in this world is a part of God. But, of course, if you think…
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For the latest give-away, please click here. Each evening, I tend to feed the horses a little extra hay so I can buy more time in the mornings in the huge, although as yet unrealized, hope (a) it’ll warm up and (b) the ice will have thawed…just a bit. HA! In talking with my brother, I mentioned I was chopping…
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Vicki, at 2 Bags Full, is hosting her third Grow Your Blog Party. Sign up is here and sign up deadline is Jan 17…hurry! It’s a great way to be introduced to new to you bloggers and your participation can be as full or limited as you want/need. It’s also a great way to introduce bloggers to your blog…hurry! Okay,…
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“Remember not the former things, nor consider the things of old. Behold, I am doing a new thing; now it springs forth, do you not perceive it? I will make a way in the wilderness and rivers in the desert.” ~ Isaiah 43:18-19 ~ “Write it on your heart that every day is the best day of the year.” ~…
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~ red tail hawk ~ We’re three days into 2015 and it seems the year has already put on skates…and wings. If this year goes any more quickly than last year, I’ll probably fall off the globe! ~ red tail hawk in flight ~ I cannot begin to believe y’all are interested in farm chores and, these days, seems farm…
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“Youth is when you’re allowed to stay up late on New Year’s Eve. Middle age is when you’re forced to.” ~ Bill Vaughan ~ “So teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom.” ~ Psalm 90:12 ~ Blessings ~ another year of God keeping me safe ~ His blessings ~ His plans ~ hope…
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“And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven, to separate the day from the night, and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years. And let them be for lights in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth: and it was so. God then made two…
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“I believe in the Virgin Birth in the fullest and most literal sense; that is, I deny that copulation with a man was the cause of the Virgin’s pregnancy.” ~ C. S. Lewis ~ Especially on holy days …holidays… we people who are aliens upon this globe, with one eye on the here and now, the other on the hereafter,…
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