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Finding Hope

December 27, 2024 Diana Derringer Home, Inspiration
Welcome to Hope--hands from opposite sides holding the word hope, sunset in background

Hope. I want it. I search for it. I try to hold onto it when I find it. During Christmas, I sing, teach, greet, write, and listen to pastors speak words of hope. Yet, in

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Pain, Pranks, and Prayers

November 22, 2024 Diana Derringer Home, Inspiration
Pain, Pranks, and Prayers--Ocean waves below cloudy sky

Another year, another loss. The waves of sorrow and pain come and go, from gentle swells to emotional monsoons. Some we can predict. Others come out of the blue. Pain Follows Pain My forty-two-year-old nephew

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I AM

January 26, 2024 Diana Derringer Home, Inspiration
I AM-Open Bible with light in the dark above it

Jesus is and forever will be the great I AM.   When we hunger for truth and purpose for being, I AM the Bread of Life. When darkness surrounds, and we search for a guide,

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Play It Again

October 27, 2023 Diana Derringer Christian Living, Home
Play It Again--man picking banjo

“Play It Again,” captures bittersweet memories and emotions of family and friends who gathered at our house on Friday or Saturday nights. The men played music. Women talked and laughed. We children played outside until

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Lesson of the Leaves

October 11, 2023 Maureen Miller Home, Inspiration
fall color

He will never leave you nor forsake you (Deuteronomy 31:6b). We’d waited… and waited. Then, just like that–the pop of western North Carolina color. Suddenly, the mountains were awash in watercolor beauty. We walked, talking

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Through It All

May 26, 2023 Diana Derringer Christian Living, Home
Through It All--Doctor with stethoscope and a hospital waiting room in the background

The world stopped along with my husband’s heart. Yet, love surrounded us through it all.   With one voice mail and a call to church, support appeared at the hospital before we arrived. Waiting, praying,

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Easter Vigil When You Don’t Feel Like Celebrating

April 11, 2023 Janet Beagle Home, Start a Conversation
Red moon. Easter Vigil Celebration

“It’s a Celebration!” “For some,” I wanted to say. But I didn’t want to be seen as a downer, or as though I didn’t appreciate the significance of this special day. So, I merely tried

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The Crushing

February 4, 2023 Martin Wiles Christian Living, Home
the crushing

I had read many papers, but the crushing she described stood out among the rest. Unfortunately, teachers don’t always know or get involved in the details of their students’ lives. And I hadn’t in hers.

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Lesson of the Leaves

October 12, 2022 Maureen Miller Home, Inspiration

WAITING We’d waited… And waited. Then, just like that, the pop of western North Carolina, and the mountains were awash in watercolor beauty. The waiting was over. WALKING We walked, talking some, laughing. Mostly, the

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I Need You to Be Okay Without Me

June 14, 2022 Janet Beagle Home
Dog sleeping

This post is about my dog. And about so much more than my dog. It’s also about me, and possibly you, too. When the pandemic hit, I was one of the lucky ones. Through a

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This is what the LORD says: “Cursed is the one who trusts in man, who draws strength from mere flesh and whose heart turns away from the LORD. — Jeremiah 17:5 (NIV)

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