What is getting under your skin? Is it festering, continuing to wound you? Do you keep picking at the open sore, wondering why it won’t heal? You may have Myiasis.…

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The three R’s; realize, recognize and rebuild, intertwine on the path of grief. I weave and twist my way around and through them, aiming for the Christ. There is no…

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Yes it is only August but a few months from now, the white stuff will blanket the land. Blizzards will coat the skies. We’ll shiver and shrug on our long…

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I knocked a coffee mug off the shelf. It hit and shattered my Mom’s precious blue glass, long-stemmed rose bowl. She didn’t have many lovely things, but year-after-year; she displayed…

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We are supposed to bloom where we are planted. Try telling that to some of my plants. They must thrive on neglect because that’s about all I feed them. Yet…

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I never even mastered the Cat’s Cradle, a string figure likely originating from the human habit of fiddling. Loops of string or thread are looped, dropped and threaded or twisted…

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Even though my e-reader and I were barely on speaking terms, I determined to download a free Bible. Nothing doing. Then I got my friend involved. She couldn’t help me…

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I haven’t been making much progress with my weight loss lately, so I prayed (again!) for God’s help. He reminded me (again!) to consider Mark 6:1-6 where unbelief stopped Christ’s…

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Are you a senior texter? Apparently the following terms might be more familiar to us then the ones younger folks use. ATD – At the Doctor  BYOT – Bring Your…

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The Word of God doesn’t need any help from me on this topic either. 1 Corinthians 14:19-21-I'm grateful to God for the gift of praying in tongues that he gives…

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