The blessing of hymns

(Photo courtesy of the morgueFile.) A couple of weeks ago, Diane at Strength For Today posted this text from the flyleaf of a hymnbook titled Tabernacle Hymns No. 5, printed in 1959: I AM YOUR HYMN BOOK Next to the Bible, I should be your most treasured book. Hold me in your hand on Sunday [...]

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I survived…

The 2010 Ladies’ Luncheon is now history. Everything went really well. Thanks for praying! I’ll tell more about it and show you some pictures early next week. Now I am getting caught up on laundry and have to run out to the store. Mittu volunteered to make dinner for us all (have I mentioned how [...]

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Busy days…..

Our annual ladies’ luncheon is this Saturday, so much of my focus this week has been preparing for that. I had thought I’d do the usual Friday memes and then wait to catch up with everyone later on over the weekend…but I am running a little behind due to being a little under the weather [...]

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Book Review: The Telling

The Telling is the last  in the Seasons of Grace series by Beverly Lewis about an Amish wife and mother who suddenly and inexplicably leaves her family. Over the last two books, the family has dealt with practical and emotional ramifications of her absence and discovered a couple of clues as to where she might [...]

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Random Dozen Meme

Linda at 2nd cup of coffee created and hosts the Random Dozen meme every Wednesday. You can answer the questions on your blog and link up to Linda’s plus find more participants there. 1. Please share one memory of your high school graduation. Pics would be great! I had to give a speech that I [...]

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Hooray for girl authors! :-)

I had planned to choose which book of a couple I have finished that I wanted to review today, and while I was puttering around on Facebook, I fell asleep in my desk chair. Now I not only have a couple of stiff muscles, but I need to get on with other tasks for the [...]

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The Week In Words Information Post

Some of you will have seen this information already, but I wanted to write a post of the reasoning behind and information about The Week In Words to link back to when sharing it with others. The Week In Words was begun by Melissa at Breath of Life, but when she became unable to host [...]

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The Week in Words — under new management

I mentioned last week that Melissa was no longer able to host “The Week In Words” and that I was thinking of taking it up. I had just about decided not to, as there didn’t seem to be that much interest, but then Janet wrote me this morning asking if I was going to. So [...]

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A Mother’s Day Prayer

I highly recommend For Moms, Former Moms, and Wannabe Moms by Wendy Alsup at Practical Theology For Women. Here is a sampling: Motherhood is not the greatest good for the Christian woman. Whether you are a mom or not, don’t get caught up in sentimentalism that sets it up as some saintly role. The greatest [...]

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An original poem…

When my children were babies and toddlers, the last thing I did every night before going to bed was check on them. If I couldn’t hear them breathing or see the rise and fall of their chests, I’d place my hand on their back to make sure they were still breathing. As they got older, [...]

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