Tag: Jesus
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Solution For the Troubled Heart
Wisdom from a Country Preacher series (Because of the high interest in my dad’s sermon notes, I decided the first Faith Friday post…
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Ode to Potatoes (A Poem for Lent)
Oh potato I love you No matter how you look You can be baked You can be loaded You can be scalloped or mashed Oh potato I love you No matter how you look You can be french fried You can be hashed You can even be chipped But today dear potato I’m laying you…
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Happy Fastnacht (aka Fasnacht) Day!
When we moved to Lancaster County, PA six years ago, we were welcomed with some interesting local sayings from the heavy PA Dutch influence here, and a whole new day of celebration we had never heard of – Fastnacht Day! My husband works for a large farm equipment dealer in the area, so he really…
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Contentment and the What ifs of Life
Contentment. All of us want it, yet it seems like so many of us don’t have it. Why are we unable to accept and make the most of the circumstances we all find ourselves in? I know I so often get caught in the ‘What if’s’ and ‘If only’s’. ‘What if I would have decided…
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Five Unusual Signs of Blessing
‘God bless you.’ I’ve said that to people, have you? What do we mean when we say that? I think I’ve meant – ‘may everything go your way’. But some of the ways Jesus described blessing in the Bible seem to be a little different. In Matthew 5, in what is called the Beatitudes, Jesus…
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I think I’m an addict
These days I find myself online a lot, and when I say a lot I mean A LOT! With wifi from cell phones, I can be plugged in 24-7. My husband says I have an IV hookup to the internet. What started as a habit has over time become, dare I say it, maybe even…
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Who’s batting for you?
Why is it that I only show true reliance on Jesus when I’m going through rocky times? I’ve been working on processing an answer to this difficult and disturbing question for the last few days. A few months back, I experienced a personal tragedy in my life that sent me running (really, beelining) to the Lord for…
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Jesus, Faithful Companion
January 3 I have to admit…I kind of entered into this blogging venture a bit unenthusiastically. Basically, I didn’t want to be the daughter to say no. I didn’t want to be the disappointing daughter, the needle that deflates mom’s hopes of the three of us doing this together. So here I am, blogging; something…
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