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When You Feel Stuck and Need Relief
Sometimes life is hard. Circumstances can leave you feeling stuck and feeling like things will never change. If your situation is like mine, it has left you aching for relief. I discovered 5 lessons we can glean from Jeremiah 37 that will encourage us until our circumstances change for the better. Earlier this week I will be honest, I just felt…
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Waiting for Good
Key Verse: Isaiah 40:31 “but they who wait for the Lord shall renew their strength: they shall mount up with wings of eagles; they shall run and not be weary: they shall walk and not faint.” Waiting in line. Waiting for my turn. Waiting to turn 18. Waiting to say “I do”. Waiting for the storm to pass. Waiting…
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Signs Matter
I did it again. I hung my All About Me sign on my door. It crookedly covered the letters on my ‘Everyone is Welcome’ sign. It wasn’t at all pretty. I’m not sure how long it had been hanging there, and it took someone else to remind me to take it down. As I pulled through the drive-thru, I smiled when…
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Have You Considered?
“Consider the ravens: They don’t sow or reap; they don’t have a storehouse or a barn; yet God feeds them.” Luke 12:24 (CSB) Consider….. I was stressed and worried so at a time like that why would God tell me to consider. Honestly, at a time like this it was hard to make a conscious effort to think “carefully about…
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Homemade “Gourmet” Potato Soup
Fall is my favorite season. I love all when the leaves start to change colors on the mountains around my house and the cool nip in the air. I enjoy decorating the house with all the oranges and gold colors and wearing big chunky sweaters. Put this together with a big cup of Pumpkin Spice coffee and a big bowl of…
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The Power in Small Words
Key Verse: “Be strong and very courageous to observe carefully the whole instruction my servant Moses commanded you. Do not turn from it right or left, so that you will have success wherever you go.” Joshua 1:7 (CSB) But….. It is hard to believe just how much power a three letter word can hold over me. Power that I can at…
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Jesus Visits Messy Houses
You get the TV and I will get the door. We then sat there in silence until the tapping on the door had stopped and we heard the car leave the driveway. In a few minutes, they were gone. We had pulled it off. We had made them think that we weren’t home. We now laugh about that incident with…
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When You Can’t Do One More Thing
Key Verse: Father, if it be possible let this cup pass from me; nevertheless, not as I will, but as you will. (Matthew 26:39) Lord, I do not want to do this….. Yes, that was my prayer. Have you ever prayed a prayer like me? I admit it didn’t seem like much of a prayer but honestly that was all…
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Ball Park Lemonade
I have so many special memories of summers from my childhood. One such memory was sipping my mom’s homemade lemonade on the porch swing in the late afternoons. My mom still makes the best lemonade in three counties, and there was no better way growing up to end a long, hot day. Nothing in life was better except for the…
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When God is at Rest During Your Storm
“The Lord said unto me, I will take my rest and will look from My dwelling place like clear heat in the sunshine and like a cloud of dew in the heat of harvest.” Isaiah 18:4 ( KJV) My situation was already bad. But things just went from bad to worse. I had prayed. I was still showing up in…
