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. My son’s wedding! (Details [...]

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A few pictures from the wedding festivities

I mentioned in my description of the wedding that we didn’t get pictures of the bride in her dress or the ceremony — I was in the front row and didn’t want to be disruptive (plus I just wanted to take it all in), and when they were taking the offical photos afterward we were [...]

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A Thousand Words In Idioms: The Milky Version

Jientje at Heaven Is In Belgium hosts A  Thousand Words In Idioms wherein she asks participants to illustrate an idiom with a photo. We started by going through the alphabet, but after completing that it’s now open to any kind of idiom. Mine will probably be by theme — it gives me a guideline to [...]

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The Wedding

I’m baa-acck! This past Saturday was Jason and Mittu’s wedding! I would have loved to have blogged about it along the way or at least mentioned the date ahead of time, but I have this phobia of some cyber-stalker figuring out that I’m away from home and looting the house while I’m gone, so I [...]

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Promises and prayer

It’s been another ultra-super-busy time — I’ll tell you all about it in a few days! I may be pretty scarce until then. But I just read the following from Our Daily Walk by F. B. Meyer and wanted to share it. I was just going to copy the paragraph about prayer, but, the whole [...]

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A Thousand Words in Idioms: Y and Z

Jientje at Heaven Is In Belgium hosts A  Thousand Words In Idioms wherein she asks participants to illustrate an idiom with a photo, going through the alphabet two at a time. We’re at the end of the alphabet today with Y and Z, but I believe Jientje is planning to continue the challenge without the [...]

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Book Review: Sometimes a Light Surprises

Sometimes a Light Surprises by Jamie Langston Turner is primarily the story of Ben Buckley, whose wife died in a mysterious unsolved murder twenty years earlier. Shortly before her death she spoke of a “conversion” experience. Ben had no use for her new-found faith and let her know that clearly. Since her death he has [...]

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For those who like books…

Deena at A Peek at My Bookshelf is holding a Dog Days of Summer Giveaway beginning today! And, seen at 5 Mintes For Books: My Friend Amy started Book Blogger Appreciation Week — both to recognize the best of the best book bloggers, and to introduce others to new book bloggers they might be unfamiliar [...]

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Reasons why prayers aren’t answered

A leaflet came in with a packet of sample tracts at our church which listed a few reasons why prayers aren’t answered. I began to think of others and added to that list in a section in our ladies’ newsletter last week, but thought of some more since then. We have to remember prayer isn’t [...]

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Blogiversary contest winner!

Thanks so much to those of you who commented on my Third Blogiversary post! Your words warmed my heart immensely. I used Random.org to choose a number, counted down to the corresponding post, and the winner of the giveaway is… Quilly! I’ll be contacting you shortly! Congratulations!

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