Posted in Uncategorized on December 31, 2007 | 9 Comments »
What shall I wish thee?
Treasures of earth?
Songs in the springtime,
Pleasures and mirth?
Flowers on thy pathway,
Skies ever clear?
Would this ensure thee
A Happy New Year?
What shall I wish thee?
What can be found
Bringing thee sunshine
All the year round?
Where is the treasure,
Lasting and dear,
That shall ensure thee
A Happy New Year?
Faith that increaseth,
Walking in light;
Hope that aboundeth,
Happy and bright;
Love that [...]
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Posted in Family on December 30, 2007 | 4 Comments »
If you missed this in the comment section in the post below, I’m reposting a link sent to me by a reader. This is a very interesting comparison of what is eaten in one week by families in different parts of the world. This ties in with my post below about being content and grateful [...]
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Posted in Family on December 29, 2007 | 16 Comments »
I don’t know about you, but the day after Christmas I have the urgent need to clear away, clean up, organize closets and generally clean house. I also find that I want to rid the house of the tooth-rotting assortment of candy, pies, cakes, and Christmas breads that have accumulated over the last few days. [...]
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Posted in Great Quotes on December 28, 2007 | 1 Comment »
“Prayer is the travel of the soul between emptiness and fullness, between misery and mercy, between inability to help ourselves and complete ability in Him to help us. Prayer is one depth crying out to another depth; it is the depth of our necessities crying out to the depth of the fullness of God. Prayer [...]
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Posted in Encouragement, Faith, Family on December 23, 2007 | 5 Comments »
My kids were helping me clean Saturday with company coming when Jonathan said, “let’s sing some Christmas carols!” I looked at my watch dubiously, but figured we had time for a musical break. I’m really glad we did. Mary, William and Jonathan gathered around the piano, and we sang our way through the Advent and [...]
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Posted in Uncategorized on December 21, 2007 | 2 Comments »
I stumbled onto a fascinating website where the records from the Old Bailey in London are posted. Reading just this one page, taken from November 29, 1832, is to step back into another world. This is a world where habitual thieves were put to death, where a woman could serve seven years in prison for [...]
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Posted in Faith, Scripture on December 17, 2007 | 4 Comments »
The children and I got to see some of the most unbelievable creatures today while watching a DVD from NOVA called, “Treasures of the Great Barrier Reef”. If you ever have a chance to get this one from the library, it will leave you spellbound to see the unbelievable glory of God’s creation. These little [...]
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Posted in Comfort, Encouragement on December 13, 2007 | 9 Comments »
I was in a grocery store yesterday when I heard someone call out my name. It turned out to be a Christian woman and VCY listener. As we began to talk about the Lord’s work in our lives, she began to share some of the heartache she had going on in her family. I [...]
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Anita Dittman was a recent guest on Crosstalk Radio Talk Show where she told her story of how she became a Jewish convert to Christianity as a young girl in Germany. She then went through a nightmarish series of events during World War II. In this excerpt from her book, Trapped in Hitler’s Hell, Anita [...]
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Posted in Music on December 9, 2007 | 5 Comments »
This piece from WorldnetDaily needs very little by way of commentary or introduction, but that’s never stopped me in the past! Anyone who has ever listened to Bach’s St. Matthew Passion or his Christmas Oratorio will not forget it soon. I have a special love for the St. Matthew. The precious words of the [...]
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