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Apr
19

The Power of a Kind Word

Power of a Kind Word from PCM on Vimeo. This really carried an important message- I hope you watch it and get as much from it as I...
Nov
25

Giving Thanks, Turning Things Around

Giving Thanks, Turning Things Around Today I am giving thanks. Real heartfelt thanks (which is what I should give to God everyday) derived from the reminder of a National holiday. I have a mixed bag of circumstances, and that has seemed the rule for me, rather than the exception; but whatever our circumstances, whether we are without a job, under financial strain, struggling with family breakups, isolated and overlooked, however challenging...
Jan
21

Have You Told JD That You Love Him Lately?

JD runs weblogs.us. Years ago he set up this place so people could have free quality blog service. I don’t think any paid service pays more attention to helping their people accomplish hosting their blogs than he does for free. The front of the blog doesn’t look different yet, but I asked JD if he would help me update WordPress and he actually did the whole thing. I’m now WordPress...
Nov
26

Thankful Days

If we can’t be thankful when things are good, when can we? You know, we Americans complain a lot. I mean that is our right, I know, but still… we tend to overuse it. We exploit our right to complain; and that’s too bad, because we have so very much to be thankful for. Even today, even when the stock market is so down and unemployment is rising…. we still have it good here in the...
Nov
13

Thankful and Hopeful Quotes

Thankful and Hopeful Quotes “Be of good cheer, my brother, for I feel the bottom, and it is sound.” ~Mr. Hopeful, in Pilgrim’s Progress “If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world.” ~ C S Lewis, Mere Christianity The worst moment for the atheist is when he is really thankful, and has nobody to thank...
Sep
4

Thankful Thursday

Thankful Thursday Thankful for: High(er) speed internet. I can get so much more done. My Laundry. How often we take for granted that we have our own laundry facilities at home.Today, I am thankful, not unmindful. My grandchildren. I hope to see more of them in the coming year The weather this summer. It had so many beautiful days that I thoroughly enjoyed. The Margaritaville Frozen-Concoction Maker. Anyone who knows me...
Jun
19

Thankful Thursdays Redux

Been awhile since I’ve done one…with all my moping and such, but here goes, an exercise in the worthy art of gratefulness. ( Thanks, as always, to Uncle Sam’s Cabin for being such a thankfulness role model ) I have lots of things to be thankful for: a new camera… to take great pictures for my garden blog – yipppeeee. Of course that won’t help my lack of expertise, but...
Apr
4

Thankful Thursday

…Just under the wire in EDST. I am thankful for a bit of summer vacation in Maui in March coming home signs of springtime God’s wonderful creation-everywhere there is something beautiful or amazing health and the ability to heal when health is not up to the task family sunshine hopes and expectations… it keeps me moving forward and raises my spirits the ability to work…believe it...
Nov
5

Count Your Many Blessings

…name them one by one. Christian traditions of counting blessings under girded by the admonition in the Bible, “give thanks in all things” 1 Thessalonians 5:18, have long been enjoined, but modern research is just catching up with the fact that giving thanks and being grateful is actually good for you. Being Grateful is Good for Your Mind and Body Emmons and colleagues, in their...
Nov
1

Thankful Thursday

The holiday of Thanksgiving is just around the corner.. it seems like it is fast approaching in my mind and that means making plans for the menu, and how to incorporate more than just a day of stuffing- stuffing the turkey and then the face, and finally the tummy! I’d like to have a repast of devotional thanksgiving ready this year. So I was happy to find this idea at About.com: A Thanksgiving...
Oct
4

Thankful Thursday

Thankful for … where I am in life right now lovely September days lattes- I don’t care! I’m thankful for lattes! the peacefulness of this time and however long it lasts the last of the summer tomatoes the first of the fall apples – Honey Crisp was a good MacIntosh type bucolic scenes that are every day fare in this part of the Ohio countryside rodent hunting cats purple asters...
Aug
9

Thankful Thursday

When I think of how complaining I, and people around me, often are… I realize we need to be more thankful. Yes, it’s very hot… but thanks be to God for access to air conditioning. I don’t have whole house air, but am thankful for the rooms to retreat to. Thankful for the rains which came to break the drought. Thankful for God’s grace which helps me to humble myself and admit...
Jul
26

Thankful Thursday

If you haven’t all the things you want, be grateful for the things you don’t have that you wouldn’t want I don’t know where that quote came form- but it is a good one. We are having soft and gentle rain after a prolonged period of drought – like weather. I am so thankful for that, I love the damp coolness it brings, but I am so thankful not to have the overabundance that...
Jul
21

Why I love Jesus Meme

Obi’s Sister kindly tagged me with the eight things meme, but since I have recently done it, and I genuinely can’t think of eight things you don’t know about me that I would possibly want every one to know… I had this meme on the back burner to do, instead. AND I going to tag Obi with it The Rules: Those tagged will share 5 things they “love” about Jesus. Those tagged...
Jul
5

Jessica’s Well : Loving America

Some fragments from Jessica’s Well on loving America. The ideologue is one who interprets the world by his own mind instead of letting the world inform him. Every fact that appears is either vindication of his opinion, well set in his mind, or is a threat to his internal world order. Since that makes him feel responsible for the world, and since he cannot control the world, he naturally feels...

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