“The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labour and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away.” ~ Psalm 90:10 ~ Canon J John Church of England, is my favorite preacher; he’s an evangelist, author and speaker in the United…
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Save $, Get Better Fuel Mileage
I still have the 1989 solid metal GMC Sierra truck we bought in 1995 and it runs great mainly because it’s been kept well. My parents taught me it’s easier and less expensive to take care of equipment, furniture, clothing, shoes, etc. than it is to replace something. That goes for me as well; I’d much rather pay the money…
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Sabbath Keeping ~ Grace
“But Noah found grace in the eyes of the Lord.” ~ Genesis 6:8 ~ “You say grace before meals. All right. But I say grace before the concert and the opera. And grace before the play and pantomime, And grace before I open a book, And grace before sketching, painting, Swimming, fencing, boxing, walking, playing, dancing And grace before I…
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Sabbath Keeping ~ a battle
“And I looked, and arose and said to the nobles, to the leaders, and to the rest of the people, “Do not be afraid of them (the enemy). Remember the Lord, great and awesome, and fight for your brethren, your sons, your daughters, your wives, and your houses.” ~ Nehemiah 4:14 ~ ~ Satan can’t destroy what God protects! ~…
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Sabbath Keeping ~ Patience
“Be still before the Lord and wait patiently for him …” ~ Psalm 37:7 ~ “Be patient with everyone, but above all with thyself. I mean, do not be disheartened by your imperfections, but always rise up with fresh courage.” ~ Francis de Sales ~ “Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.” ~ Samuel Johnson ~ “Adopt…
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Major, but short, Whine. You Have Been Warned
Sometimes Most times I feel so out of the loop it’s a very real struggle to pull up the ole woman bloomers and get on with it. “It” being everything, of course. On November 5, here, I wrote Dave a letter; it was the seventh year anniversary of his death and DANG if it didn’t roll over me like brand…
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The trouble with life is…it’s SO daily!
Today is Gina’s birthday and her present was mailed earlier in the week but I called her this morning to say happy birthday and then chin wag. During the course of conversation we started talking about “self-care”…as in what are you doing FUN for your birthday. Her answer is just about everyone’s answer…laundry (housework, clean the car, etc.) but we’re…
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I KNOW SOMETHING GOOD ABOUT YOU!
“Wouldn’t this old world be better, If the folks we met would say: I know something good about you, And then treat us just that way! Wouldn’t things be more pleasant If the good that’s in us all, Were the only thing about us, That folks bothered to recall! Wouldn’t life be lots more happy If we’d praise the good…
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Sabbath Keeping ~ God Showed Up
Do you think Joseph and Mary had their entire lives planned? Do you think they talked about their wedding day, where they would live, how many children they would have, what they would name them? Then God showed up and everything changed. Do you think Mary wanted to be Mary? During the New Testament time Nazareth was a small, rather…
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Sabbath Keeping
“You keep track of all my sorrows. You have collected all my tears in your bottle. You have recorded each one in your book.” ~ Psalm 56:8 ~ “I will not say: do not weep; for not all tears are evil.” ~ Tolkien ~ “Tears come from the heart and not from the brain.” ~ da Vinci ~ “There is…
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Sabbath Keeping – Change
“For I, the Lord, do not change…” ~ Malachi 3:6 ~ “Everybody thinks of changing humanity and nobody thinks of changing himself.” ~ Leo Tolstoy ~ “…just as you do not analyze the words of someone you love, but accept them as they are said to you, accept the Word of Scripture and ponder it in your heart, as Mary…
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