turn on the light

Are you walking into a dark room?
Turn the light on!
And if you don’t turn it on, don’t ask for sympathy when you stub a toe on the chair leg.
Are you at a dark campsite?
Turn the flashlight on!
And if you don’t turn it on, don’t cry for sympathy after you fall in a hole.
 
Do you have [...]

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sunday roast is in the oven

Acts 16: 22 – 26
22The crowd joined in the attack against Paul and Silas, and the magistrates ordered them to be stripped and beaten. 23After they had been severely flogged, they were thrown into prison, and the jailer was commanded to guard them carefully. 24Upon receiving such orders, he put them in the inner cell [...]

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the 24/7 bible study

My friend Missy just posted a series about Bible studies.  About how she has been trained to lead them properly and how frustrating is it to sit in a study that someone else is leading and have thoughts flitting through her head like “I would be keeping this discussion on track”  But the point of [...]

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looking up

I’ve been thinking a lot about photography lately.  I’m working on developing a relationship with a photographer that I am hoping will be taking photos of Ginny and of us for years to come.  Probably at least four sessions a year.  And with all that focus in my head I’ve been looking more closely at [...]

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how to be universally lovely

Wives, in the same way be submissive to your husbands so that if any of them do not believe the word, they may be won over without words by the behavior of their wives when they see the
purity and reverence of your lives
Your beauty should not come from outward adornment, such as braided hair and [...]

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morning funnies

My brother doesn’t do mornings.
Frankly neither do I.  Or at least I wouldn’t if I didn’t have to in order to make a living in the real world. *sigh*  Most mornings I would love to have a cup of tea delivered to me, wrap up in a blanket, sit on the porch, read a book [...]

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if you could have one wish

If you could have one wish.  Just one.
What would it be?
none of this wishing for infinite wishes stuff either.  Just one wish.

that’s okay.  I’ll wait.  did you think of one?
What was it?  Now be honest.
World peace?
fabulous wealth?
Athletic, strong,  healthy body that would allow me to eat anything I wanted and never get fat or have [...]

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heading back

okay, actually I’m already back.
The event was good.  Nothing earth shatteringly great or disastrously dangerous …or frankly anything easy to write about.
and there is something else on my mind anyway
I’m currently working on a memory verse
“Do not repay evil with evil or insult with insult, but with blessing because to this you were called so [...]

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love me tender

I want to be more sensitive.
Now to those people who know me and know how “over-sensitive” I already am, I will submit to you that what you are labeling “over sensitive” in me right now is actually just a tendency to over-react.
What I’m talking about when I say I want to be more sensitive is [...]

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remind the people

For the next two weeks I will be dwelling in this verse:
Titus 3: 1&2
Remind the people to be subject to rulers and authorities, to be obedient, to be ready to do whatever is good, to slander no one, to be peaceable and considerate and to show true humility toward all men.

I know the things I [...]

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