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Mother’s Day Every Day

May 8, 2026 Joann Claypoole Home, Inspiration

“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

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April’s Promise

April 10, 2026 Joann Claypoole Home, Inspiration, Start a Conversation

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

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Mother’s Day in a Daughter’s Garden

May 9, 2025 Joann Claypoole Home, Inspiration

To describe my mother would be to write about a hurricane in its perfect power. Or the climbing, falling colors of a rainbow.   ~ Maya Angelou The inheritance I inherited my mother’s love of nature

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The Table

November 8, 2024 Joann Claypoole Christian Living, Home

Thank you for giving me bread to break with family and friends. Thank you for my good health and even better cheer. Thank you for the eternal love, light, and meaning given to each of

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He Calls Me Friend

May 10, 2024 Joann Claypoole Home, Start a Conversation

  If you have two friends in your lifetime, you’re lucky. If you have one good friend, you’re more than lucky. S.E. Hinton Friends till when? When asked if I ever dreamed or thought about

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How I Find Peace When Bunnies and Sparrows Fall

August 11, 2023 Joann Claypoole Home, Inspiration

Finding peace in nature’s sad situations isn’t easy… While I’ve considered thoughts about my being a fraud, the question and answer of how I find peace when bunnies and sparrows fall have piqued my brain

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A Forest’s Song

July 7, 2023 Joann Claypoole Home, Inspiration

I will sing a forest’s song. Let every creature praise his holy name. Let the heavens be glad, let the earth rejoice; let the sea roar, and all that fills it; let the field exult,

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Memories of Springtime and Mother’s Days Past

May 12, 2023 Joann Claypoole Home, Inspiration

Winter had worn out her welcome. Memories of springtime and Mother’s Days past recently invaded my dreams. Thoughts of how each season compares to sacred snapshots of unforgettable days of our lives swirled in my

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How to Find Peace Where the Sparrows Live

August 12, 2022 Joann Claypoole Home, Inspiration

I’ve often wondered how to find peace where the sparrows live and how the answer to that quirky thought compared to my life-long desire to discover and abide in God’s presence. Those who know me,

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No Greater Love

February 11, 2022 Joann Claypoole Christian Living, Culture, Home, Inspiration

Can love change the world? I’m reminded of splendor and thunder; how the trickle-down effects of selflessness, patience, kindness, and faithfulness instead of selfishness, impatience, and unfaithfulness can change lives for the better. There’s no

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