Choking anxieties

Busy, busy day today — I won’t be able to participate in the usual Friday memes. I will get around to visit you all hopefully later today or this evening. In the meantime, I wanted to share something the Lord used to speak to me this morning. While showering and getting ready, my mind was [...]

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Booking Through Thursday: Collectibles

The weekly Booking Through Thursday question for today is: Hardcover? Or paperback? Illustrations? Or just text? First editions? Or you don’t care? Signed by the author? Or not? Mostly I just collect what I like to read, in whatever format. I like the idea of first editions, but not enough to pay the extra price. [...]

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Melli’s ABC Challenge: K and L

Melli is hosting an ABC photo challenge in which we’re supposed to look for letters in common everyday things or in nature without actually manipulating anything to make the letter and without photographing the letter itself in a word or sign. We’re doing two letters a week, and this week it is K and L. [...]

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Barnabas award

I hadn’t planned to be AWOL yesterday, but it turned out to be a good thing. I needed to focus on tasks for the week. This is the time of month I work on our ladies’ newsletter/booklet, but my “work week” is cut short because Jesse has a basketball tournament Friday and Saturday. Usually I [...]

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Complete in Thee!

Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to his mercy he saved us, by the washing of regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Ghost; Which he shed on us abundantly through Jesus Christ our Saviour; That being justified by his grace, we should be made heirs according to the hope of [...]

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Stray thoughts here and there

Here are some other people’s thoughts that have blessed, encouraged, instructed me, and made me think recently: Why we need the arts. Herb Cookery: Vintage Tip Sheet. Being vs. doing. Mothering, chores, and consequences. Favorite quote: “…one theme that seems to keep coming up in some of the episodes we watch, and that’s women feeling [...]

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Friday’s Fave Five

Susanne at Living to Tell the Story hosts a “Friday Fave Five” in which we share our five favorite things from the past week. Click on the button to read more of the details. My favorites from this week: 1. Getting past the halfway point in the unabridged Les Miserables! I am on page 769 [...]

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Booking Through Thursday: Storage

The weekly Booking Through Thursday question for today is suggested by Kat: I recently got new bookshelves for my room, and I’m just loving them. Spent the afternoon putting up my books and sharing it on my blog . One of my friends asked a question and I thought it would be a great BTT [...]

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Melli’s ABC Challenge and other things I see in odd places

Do you remember the Magic Eye craze several years ago: a picture of squiggly lines or confused images which didn’t make sense, but if you stared at it in just the right way, you’d see a 3D image. I could never make those things work. But we had wallpaper in our bedroom and bathroom made [...]

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Interests and Issues

Gina at Chats With an Old Lady is running a series on Titus 2 women, sharing testimonies of women who have emphasized the Titus 2 characteristics of an older woman teaching and being an example to a younger one. If you don’t have someone like this in your life, perhaps these testimonies would give you [...]

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