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Share Four Somethings— January 2023 Edition
I’m linking up with friends for Share Four Somethings January 2023 over @ Jennifer’s place, Overflowing With Thankfulness; each month, we share something we Loved, Read, Learned, and Ate. Something Loved I Love my BFFiC— Best Friend in Christ, Kim. We’ve known each other for nine years and have been Best Friends in Christ for seven. I’m divorced, and my kids are grown. I’ve been on my own for…
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Beyond A Shadow Of A Doubt
This post is part of the Five Minute Friday blog link-up. Where I join up with a community of writers and bloggers of all ages and stages who gather around a single-word prompt to free-write, unscripted, unedited, for five minutes. This week’s word prompt is {{Doubt}} But Thomas, one of the twelve [disciples], who was called Didymus (the twin), was not with them…
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A Fresh Start
“So the second day they marched around the city once and returned to the camp; they did the same for six days.” Joshua 6:14— NASB The plan of action would have sounded far out to anyone else. But Joshua, the head of the Israelite nation, was about to move into the Promised Land and take over. This land would be his,…
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Peace Be With You— Enjoying A Christ-Centered Christmas + Free Printable 21 Christmas Journal & Prayer Prompts
It’s not uncommon for us to complain about the holiday season from October through the end of December. Saying things like… “Christmas has been given mass appeal to commercialization. It’s so secular now,” “it’s materialistic,” we might say. “It’s all about Santa and shopping, but what about the Savior?” I agree with these sentiments. After all, Christmas is a time…
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When You Love Your Community
Love is patient and kind. Love is not jealous or boastful or proud 1 Corinthians 13:4— NLT In a little town not too far from me— Tommy Wynkoop, the owner of Fox’s Pizza Den in Ligonier, Pennsylvania, a small town where winter can be long and unrelenting, showed loving kindness. Back in 2014, a snowstorm blew through With bitter cold temperatures keeping…
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Return To Rest
Scripture— Let my soul be at rest again, for the Lord has been good to me. Psalm 116:7— VOICE Encouragement— So often, we have to speak to ourselves, you know, that internal dialog. Usually, when we’re weary, we don’t want to talk much. We typically like to sit down and not speak. We need to remember to tell ourselves to keep…
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Happy Holidays Or Merry Christmas?
It’s that time of year again – the hustle and bustle of the holiday season. And for some folks, a yuletide debate— to say Merry Christmas or Happy Holidays? It’s been happening for some time now; more and more people have given up the traditional ‘Merry Christmas’ greeting. It’s even a rule in some places of work. That their employees…
