Jett seemed to live at the church. Along with worship services and weekly Bible study, she served on the welcoming team, landscaping committee, and the cleanliness committee. A smiling face and willing hands. Others would
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My heart has been rather heavy of late. The passing of a dear friend has reminded me how life is full of so many heart-breaking moments. And that reminder, in turn, has me mulling over
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What can a teenage girl learn about devotion from a farm dog named Dashaway? I found out one winter when snow and ice closed area schools for almost a month. We lived on a farm,
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My husband calls it playing in the dirt. I call it therapy. And this time of year, the urge to plant stuff is almost unbearable. Especially on days like last week when it was in
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I love thunderstorms and here in East Texas, we get some good ones. Watching the lightning zig zag across the sky, feeling the thunder shake the house, and listening to the rain beat upon the
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We frequently find devotion in the smallest of acts. Gnarled and gray he hovers near her bed, spreads the cover over her bird-thin shoulders, then plants a final kiss on her cheek. Minutes before
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You don’t want to do it. It’s hard. You don’t know if you can. It’s not just hard—it’s too hard. For you. You’re afraid. What if you don’t succeed? Fail? Maybe you’ve been asked to
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Little did we know, as we delighted in food and family, how soon we would face a life-altering decision: Choose sorrow or choose joy. Gathered around our dining room table, joy overflowed that all our
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When I think about my future plants that I will be enjoying this year, I’m reminded of the Master Gardener—the One who with His hands fashioned not only the world, but also me.
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It’s not easy, and when you walk into a cold situation you want to grab your coat, scarf and mittens and run out the door, but we as Christ followers are different. We need to sit an example to others and do what Jesus would do in that situation.
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