• Choosing Well

    Note:  This blog post is a bonus devotion celebrating the launch of Janet Hines’ new book Between the Valley and the Mountaintop:  Glimpses of God in the Middle Places   Way too often life brings challenge after challenge, leaving us feeling like we have no ability to choose what’s happening. Many years ago, in response

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  • Rising

      Psalm 119:147 I get up before the sun rises. I cry out for help.  I’ve put my hope in your word.   October 31, 2018 This month is all but gone. On October 1, I accepted a challenge in a writer’s group I belong to and committed to writing and posting on my blog for

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  • My Hope

    Romans 12:12 When you hope, be joyful. When you suffer, be patient. When you pray, be faithful. Instructions from the book of life. Life has a way of convincing us there is no way those words written a few thousand years ago could apply to our lives today. We look around at every thing we

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  • Looking Up

        Psalm 57:10-11 Great is your love. It reaches to the heavens.  Your truth reaches to the skies.   God, may you be honored above the heavens.  Let your glory be over the whole earth.  For this, I’m grateful.  I’m a cloud watcher. Maybe because growing up on a farm it was what we did.

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  • Ouch

    Ephesians 6:24 May grace be given to everyone who loves our Lord Jesus Christ with a love that will never die.  These agave plants grow plentiful on my property in Honduras. Well over six feet tall, the thorns on the end are brutally painful when they come in contact with our fragile human skin. Hurts

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  • Directional Challenges

    Hebrews 6:19 We have this as a sure and steadfast anchor of the soul, a hope that enters into the inner place behind the curtain. Every day as our feet hit the floor, we are headed somewhere to do something and will be engaged in life until our head hits the pillow that night. How

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  • Light in Dark Places

    Psalm 18:28 Lord, you keep the lamp of my life burning brightly.  You are my God. You bring light into my darkness.  I’ve shared a few pics and stories of the activities in my fall garden. The most recent – my monarch butterflies – in caterpillar adventures. Isn’t this one a beauty? My four year

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  • Storm App

    September 4, 2018 Living in a hurricane prone area, we all know to keep up to date on the developing threats heading our way. Such as this morning, waking up to check the progress of this guy named Gordon, my weather app displayed these warnings. Looking off my front porch this morning, the second pic

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