Snippets

Whew! Busy day. I feel like I’ve been “going” all day — and I am definitely not the Energizer Bunny! It’s nice to sit down for a while. Jason got his first full-time pay check a few days ago and remarked, “Now I know why people gripe about taxes so much!” Welcome to adulthood, m’boy. [...]

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Mimosa

Sometimes people who work in children’s ministries can get discouraged due to the seeming lack of fruit or the fact that they have some children just a few times and then never see them again. Mimosa by Amy Carmichael tells the story of a little girl who was marvelously changed by just a short encounter [...]

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Barbara likes to…

I saw way back a long time ago on my friend Alice‘s blog a fun exercise: type your first name and “likes to” in your browser and see what pops up. Here are some results from “Barbara likes to…” Barbara likes to quote the anthropologist Margaret Mead. Nope. Never read her. Barbara likes to party [...]

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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, and you can visit Susanne to see the list of others’ favorites or to join in. 1. Sunshine! After all the [...]

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Booking Through Thursday: Unique Sorting

There happened to be two Booking Through Thursday questions today, probably inadvertantly. The first one had to do with whether there is a book that “evokes summer” or has a summery feel to it. I don’t really have an answer for that one. But the second question is: Browsing through my blog, I found a [...]

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Jon and Kate

I don’t watch Jon and Kate Plus 8. I’ve caught just a few minutes of it here and there as I’ve flipped through channels. My fleeting impressions were that Kate was high-strung and somewhat disrespectful of her husband and that Jon seemed to be just…there. I am very sad to hear that they are planning [...]

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Small things

The reading for today in Our Daily Walk by F. B. Meyer really spoke to my heart. I was going to just quote the last paragraph, but really couldn’t leave out the first two. But the last paragraph set off a train of thought about other small things God has used: the “little maid” who [...]

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What’s On Your Nighstand: June

The folks at 5 Minutes For Books host What’s On Your Nightstand? the fourth Tuesday of each month in which we can share about the books we have been reading and plan to read. You can learn more about it by clicking the link or the button. I seriously thought about just linking to my [...]

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Random survey for the bored

I was wanting to post something a little “lite” for Monday as I have a lot I want to get accomplished. This was on Facebook as a “Random survey for the bored.” I’m not bored, but thought it looked like fun. I get these kinds of things in e-mail sometimes. Feel free to borrow this, [...]

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Father’s Day

I had a hard time deciding what to post for Father’s Day! I had some things I’d posted in past years that I really liked, and I know I have readers now that I didn’t have then, but there were so many I couldn’t decide which to post. So…I am going to post a new [...]

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