Job stood up and tore his robe in grief. Then he shaved his head and fell to the ground to worship. He said, “I came naked from my mother’s womb, and I will be naked
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Tag: Faith
Smarter Not Harder Faith
For more than a decade, someone in our family grew a garden and I put up vegetables every year. I canned acre peas, cream peas, pink eye purple hull peas, and zipper peas. I even
Read moreBlooming In a Traffic Cone
What a roadside weed, the apostle Paul, a traffic cone, and a terrible, horrible, no good day taught me about blooming where God plants us Yesterday began as an Australia day. That’s what we call
Read moreHis Creative Word
“Have faith in God,” Jesus answered. “Truly I tell you, if anyone says to this mountain, ‘Go, throw yourself into the sea,’ and does not doubt in their heart but believes that what they say will happen,
Read moreMother’s Day Every Day
“Being a mother is learning about strengths you didn’t know you had and dealing with fears you didn’t know existed.” ~ Linda Wooten …Whenever I think about all the fantastic Mother’s Day celebrations my family
Read moreMissing the Beauty
The Lord God made all sorts of trees grow up from the ground—trees that were beautiful and that produced delicious fruit. ~Genesis 2:9 NLT Beauty surrounded them, but they had only one destination in mind.
Read moreApril’s Promise
If spring is the door to summer’s glory, why is it that Mother Nature sometimes hesitates to step inside? ~ Me. Carolina clay and a little secret sauce I’ve been knee deep in the Carolina
Read moreFamily Day
Children are a gift from the Lord; they are a reward from him…. How joyful is the man whose quiver is full of them! ~Psalm 127:3-5 The circus was coming to town, and my wife and
Read moreSpringtime’s Mysterious Way
“Where flowers bloom, so does hope.” ~ Lady Bird Johnson The way of birds, flowers, and hope Birds, unlike you and me, listen to each whisper on the wind. Every morning throughout the seasons, they
Read moreARCS for FEAR
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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