Random Dozen #4

Hosted by Linda at 2nd Cup of Coffee. Visit Linda’s to link up or find other participants. 1. Tell me the absolute best way to watch a movie. At home with my family with my feet up and something to drink close by. 2. Do you ever think about your own funeral? If so, do [...]

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A Thousand Words In Idioms: The Cash Version

If “language is the dress of thoughts” ( Johnson), then idioms must the wardrobe. Jientje at Heaven Is In Belgium hosts A  Thousand Words In Idioms on Wednesdays wherein she asks participants to illustrate an idiom or two with a photo. Cold, hard cash. If you pay for something on cold, hard cash, you are [...]

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The Official Wedding Photos

I had posted some unofficial photos here, but Jason and Mittu finally got their wedding photos Saturday! And bless their hearts, they brought them over for us to see that very night. I won’t be able to post all 149, of course, but here are some of my favorites. The groomsmen “scoring” the kiss, Olympic [...]

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Before the Throne of God Above

This is an old hymn that is fairly new to me. I first heard it on the Soundforth CD Freedom Through Christ, then later on the CD A Quiet Heart. I wish it were still in our hymnbooks. I looked up and printed out the words soon after I heard it and listened to it [...]

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On asking God why

Elisabeth Elliot wrote a book by that title which I read and learned much from years ago, though I don’t remember much specific about it now. But this excerpt comes from a chapter titled “Ever Been Bitter?” in Keep a Quiet Heart: Is it a sin to ask God why? It is always best to [...]

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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. School’s out! Jesse’s school [...]

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Helpers

I’ve mentioned that I am rereading Becoming God’s True Woman, a series of messages to women edited by Nancy Leigh DeMoss. Today I finished the latter half of the chapter “A Wife’s Responsibility to Help Her Husband” by Barbara Hughes, which was reprinted from her book Disciplines of a Godly Woman, which I’ve not read. [...]

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Random Dozen Meme #3

Hosted by Linda at 2nd Cup of Coffee. 1. Please share one middle school memory. It can be good, bad, ugly, funny. Pictures or words, I don’t care, just share. I had junior high rather than middle school — it wasn’t until a few years after that that schools in our area went to a [...]

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A Thousand Words In idioms: The Bookish Version

If “language is the dress of thoughts” ( Johnson), then idioms must the wardrobe. Jientje at Heaven Is In Belgium hosts A  Thousand Words In Idioms on Wednesdays wherein she asks participants to illustrate an idiom or two with a photo. By the book. If someone goes “by the book,” they are going exactly by [...]

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What’s On Your Nightstand: September

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/or plan to read. You can learn more about it by clicking the link or the button. I forgot this occurred on the fourth Tuesday! [...]

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