Encouragement

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Forgiveness Impacts Us Daily

My last post was about a neighbor problem. I thought this an appropriate time to  address forgiveness.
And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, may have power, together with all the saints, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ, and to know this [...]

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A Proverbs 31 Woman

I bet you have never heard of this Proverbs 31 lady. I cannot not find one word about her on the Internet, so let me introduce you to this awe-inspiring woman with the words from one of my favorite authors, Phillip Keller:
“She was brave, she was beautiful!
Beautiful not only in bodily [...]

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A Letter from Our Father

I just wanted to remind you today of how beautiful you are because there is a father of lies who will try to deceive you.
He will try to tell you that you are not good enough,
not attractive enough,
not thin enough,
not strong enough,
not smart enough,
not righteous enough,
and that you are simply unimportant to Me.
He will try [...]

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Devotional for the Disorganized

Amy Verlennich from Dandelion Seeds created a series of lessons to help homemakers with cleaning their homes, with devotionals to help the women clean their hearts, as well. I love this idea. It started Jan 1 but I just found it this morning at His Favorite Daughter.

FREE Devotional and MORE!
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Official Blog Beginning

Thank you for visiting my new blog. Grab a cup of tea and stay for awhile. I’ve been posting for a few weeks but I’m just now announcing this new blog.
The dates on these posts may be confusing. I brought over a few favorite recipes and organization posts from my Heart of Wisdom blog and [...]

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Sowing and Reaping, More Seed More Fruit

One morning after Bible study, my three youngest sons and I planted 200 tulip and daffodil bulbs. It was a special time of learning (We also put up an electric fence and quickly learned about electricity currents–a shock is a lesson not soon forgotten).
We discussed sowing and reaping while planting bulbs. This is one of [...]

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No More Oatmeal Kisses

A young mother writes: “I know you’ve written before about the empty-nest syndrome, that lonely period after the children are grown and gone. Right now I’m up to my eyeballs in laundry and muddy boots. The baby is teething; the boys are fighting. My husband just called and said to eat without him, and I fell off my diet. Lay it on me again, will you?”

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Need Spiritual Encouragement?

Here are some of my favorite object lessons for you from my other blog:

Spiritual Mountain Climbing (sure footing before going to another level)
Feeling Worthy When We Aren’t (you can’t help others until you help yourself)
Disgrace or God’s Grace (are you stumbling?)
Spiritual Journey: Reaching the Promised Land (don’t make an 11-day journey into forty years in [...]

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