If you stopped by because you read my devotion today over at Encouragement Cafe, WELCOME! So glad you are here! Jesus feeding the 5000 is a well-known miracle recorded in the Gospels. One Sunday our Pastor was reviewing the miracle within a sermon. The disciples thought Jesus should send the people away into the nearby towns […]
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Thanksgiving Parade
My pastor recently preached a Thanks Living sermon. The scripture was from 1 Chronicles 16. It was the account of David bringing the Ark of the Covenant back into the tabernacle he had erected. He offered burnt offerings and peace offerings to the Lord. David gave to all the people of Israel a loaf of […]
Can I Call You Right Back?
One day as I was just leaving work, my daughter called me. She had not gotten but a couple of sentences out of her mouth when I heard my phone beep. I looked at the screen and noticed it was a coworker and I knew I needed to take the call. So I told Martha […]
Fighting Unencumbered
If you stopped by because you read my devotion today over at Encouragement Cafe, WELCOME! So glad you are here! Therefore we also, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which so easily ensnares us, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us, 2 looking […]
Summer Heat Lightening
If you stopped by because you read my devotion today over at Encouragement Cafe, WELCOME! So glad you are here! I really enjoy the summer. I like the longer days. I enjoy fresh vegetables and fruits. I love seeing hummingbirds drink from my flowers and the hummingbird feeder in the yard. The only drawback to summer […]
Making Lost Memories
My husband’s Mom has dementia. It has been sad watching her progressively get worse over the last several years. It has come to the point where one son and daughter-in-law started staying with her during the day. Then her two daughters, my husband’s sisters, who are teachers, began taking turns staying when school let out […]
A Transforming Image
I have been blessed in my life to have known and currently know some very Godly women. Women with gentle, loving spirits that let you know immediately they are children of God. Women who are always encouraging and who glow with joy no matter what circumstance they may be going through. Women whose conversations always […]
Crying Out In Brokenness
If you stopped by because you read my devotion today over at Encouragement Cafe, WELCOME! So glad you are here! Have you ever been brokenhearted? It’s not something we like to feel. It’s not something we like taking about. But unfortunately, we do experience brokenness in this fallen world. I love reading the Psalms of David. […]
God’s Flowers
If you stopped by because you read my devotion today over at Encouragement Cafe, WELCOME! So glad you are here! It had been a very hard spring. And going forward into the summer months were going to be even harder. My Dad had gotten very sick in March. It was a very hard few months before […]
The Truth
She knew the truth as soon as she saw His face. “Oh, God! It’s true isn’t it?” “Yes,” he said simply. “This can’t be happening. Why is this happening?” He quietly shook his head. “God, this isn’t fair. I’ve always tried to live right. How can this be happening to me?” His kind eyes looked […]