Coping when husband is away

The first time my husband was ever away overnight, I was a basket case. I thought I heard something in the leaves outside and frantically called my landlord, who patiently came over and checked the outside of the house for me. If I had to leave home while my husband was away, when I came [...]

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Book Reviews: A Walk in the Park and A Long Walk Home

I won two books in the Sand Dollar series, A Walk In the Park and A Long Walk Home by Barbara Andrews, in a contest held by Mocha With Linda, who knows the author. Either could probably be read as a stand-alone book, but their enjoyment would be enhanced by reading them both. In A [...]

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The Week In Words

Welcome to The Week In Words, where we share quotes from the last week’s reading. If something you read this past week  inspired you, caused you to laugh, cry, think, dream, or just resonated with you in some way, please share it with us, attributing it to its source, which can be a book, newspaper, [...]

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Majestic Sweetness

This hymn was one of the favorites of a dear former pastor, Jesse Boyd (for whom our Jesse was named). Pastor Boyd has been with the Lord for several years now. I hadn’t thought about this hymn in a long time, but I heard it on the radio this morning. Loved ones of several different [...]

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Laudable Linkage and Fun Videos

Here are a few things that stood out to me online this week: Filling my home with the unseen, HT to Lizzie. Both the photos and the sentiments are lovely. Pray to BLESS. I’ve heard and read a number of acronyms as a help to prayer, but I had never come across this one before. [...]

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Friday’s Fave Five

Welcome to Friday’s Fave Five, hosted by Susanne at Living to Tell the Story, in which we can share five of our favorite things from the last week. This has been a wonderful exercise in looking for and appreciating the good things God blesses us with. Click on the button to learn more, then go [...]

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Controversies

There have been a couple of controversies brewing within Christendom over the last few weeks, one quite well known, and one not known by quite as many (and if you don’t know what I am talking about, don’t worry about it. I’m not addressing these particular conflicts themselves). What almost always seems to happen with [...]

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Wednesday Hodgepodge

Joyce From This Side of the Pond hosts a weekly Wednesday Hodgepodge of questions for fun and for getting to know each other. 1. Sunday was the first day of spring. So they say. Ahem. What is your favorite outdoor springtime activity? I don’t actually do much outdoors in springtime because of allergies. So I [...]

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Book Review: Just Between You and Me

Just Between You and Me by Jenny B. Jones is one of the most fun books I have read in a long time, yet it is not without depth: the subtitle is “A Novel of Losing Fear and Finding God.” Maggie is a cinematographer who has traveled all over the world and loves to challenge [...]

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What’s On Your Nightstand: March 2011

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. Since last time I finished: A Memory Between [...]

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