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Cultivating a Sense of Gratitude During Seasons of Loss

November 19, 2020 Norma Gail Faith, Fire Starters, Holiday, inspire a fire

Cultivating a sense of gratitude may come a little harder in 2020. My husband did not plan to retire this year. However, like so many other Americans, he lost his job last March due to

Like a Shower of Leaves

November 10, 2020 Janet Beagle Blog, Fire Starters

I had forgotten the sound, but I remember it now. Standing in a New England woods, watching the autumn leaves drift through the canopy, I flash back. I remember tumbling through giant piles of leaves,

Learning contentment

November 9, 2020 April Dawn White Faith, Fire Starters, Greatfulness

Contentment is a new skill I’m learning to develop. Like any new skill, it requires frequent repetition, trial and error.

An Attitude of Gratitude

November 18, 2019 Ava Pennington Fire Starters, Thankfulness, thanksgiving

There’s a saying traveling the internet these days that goes something like this: “What if you woke up today with only the things you thanked God for yesterday?” (Was that as convicting for you as

God is Present In the Middle of Our Mess

November 11, 2019 April Dawn White Fire Starters

Messy lives. Messy relationships. Messy problems. God is present in the middle of our mess. Messy piles of problems surrounded this year. Like a mental game of the wooden block building game, I picked up

Gratitude is Always in Season

November 12, 2018 April Dawn White Fire Starters

By April Dawn White I am blessed to live in an area of the country with four distinct seasons. Garden flags, front door wreaths, and table quilted table runners are displayed for their specific season.

In All Things

November 9, 2018 Joann Claypoole Blog, Culture, Devotions, Featured, Fire Starters, Inspiration, inspire a fire, Thankfulness, thanksgiving, Worship

I may have bitten off more than I can chew and it’s not even Thanksgiving yet. While I believe the abundance of my favorite season’s harvest means more than picking apples in North Carolina, baking

It’s the Month of Love! 3 Ways to Spell Out Your Gratitude to Another

June 6, 2016 Cathy Baker Faith, Fire Starters, Inspiration, Relationships

by Cathy Baker There is a gratefulness often gone unspoken between two people, choosing to assume the other person knows how we feel. Then you turn around one day and find it’s too late to

Better Than Pie

November 24, 2015 Susan Lower Blog, Relationships

My mom makes the best pies. She only makes them for Thanksgiving and it’s a race for many of us to grab that dollop of meringue off the lemon pie first. Yeah, it’s that good.

We Thank-You

November 7, 2015 Debbie Simler-Goff Fire Starters

“George Mercer*, for your service in the U.S. Army,on behalf of a grateful nation, we thank-you.” I said those words to George last year on Veteran’s Day, as he sat stoically in his wheelchair,