For those who exalt themselves will be humbled, and those who humble themselves will be exalted. ~Luke 14:11 NLT “I like trying to be a big fish in a big pond, not a big fish
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Moral of the Story
Remember Aesop’s fables? A short story and the “moral of the story”? Well, I’m not Aesop, but I am a storyteller who loves to bring an inspirational thought or two through the use of story.
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Pure and genuine religion in the sight of God the Father means caring for orphans and widows in their distress and refusing to let the world corrupt you. ~James 1:27 NLT Their faces told their
Read moreWhen Life Gets Too Convenient
The lazy person claims, “There’s a lion on the road! Yes, I’m sure there’s a lion out there!” Proverbs 26:13 NLT I remember when I first encountered 7-Elevens and how they changed my gas-station world.
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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
Read moreSmarter 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 moreDevotion and Dashaway
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,
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.
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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
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Be of sober spirit, be on the alert. Your adversary, the devil, prowls around like a roaring lion, seeking someone to devour. 1 Peter 5:8 NASB1995 With a can of Raid©, she meticulously sought out
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