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 [...]
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Thankful Days
November 26th, 2008 · No Comments · Circadian, Cuppa
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, [...]
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Thankful and Hopeful Quotes
November 13th, 2008 · No Comments · Cuppa, Featured Articles, 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 [...]
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Thankful Thursday
September 4th, 2008 · No Comments · Cuppa
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 [...]
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Thankful Thursdays Redux
June 19th, 2008 · No Comments · Cuppa
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 [...]
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Thankful Thursday
April 4th, 2008 · No Comments · Cuppa
…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 [...]
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Count Your Many Blessings
November 5th, 2007 · No Comments · Character, Cuppa
…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 [...]
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Thankful Thursday
November 1st, 2007 · No Comments · Circadian, Cuppa
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 [...]
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Thankful Thursday
October 4th, 2007 · No Comments · Cuppa
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 [...]
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Thankful Thursday
August 9th, 2007 · No Comments · Cuppa
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 [...]
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