showers of blessings

Is rain a blessing?
In the physical world we have no trouble understanding this. Rain IS a blessing. It makes things grow, it moderates our climate, it is necessary.
Yes, there are also floods, and monsoons and erosion and damage caused by rain, but over all we seem to have no trouble understanding that rain is [...]

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dry up and blow away

But now, after you have known God, or rather, are known by God, how is it that you turn again to the weak and beggarly elements, to which you desire again to be in bondage? You observe days and months and seasons and years.
Galatians 4:9 & 10

wow.
Do I really do this? um….yes.
How many times [...]

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out of sync

This whole weekend my hubby and I both felt out of sync. With each other and the world in general.
I was grumpy and he was just….not all there. It was weird. We weren’t communicating well. Nothing disastrous, just little things that didn’t go as planned and we couldn’t quite adjust.
I was [...]

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does God mind if I type to him?

If asked to visualize someone having a “quiet time” or “devotions” with God I have a pretty clear picture in my head of what that is supposed to look like.
It happens late in the middle of a peaceful morning.  The lady having the quiet time has finished the dishes and there is a load of [...]

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he who has ears…..

So in our devotional this morning we read that we are supposed to pray for “those who are yearning to hear from God”
And my darling hubby mulls this over for a minute and then says
“I’ve always loved the fact that the word yearn contains the word EAR, since its all about understanding and to understand [...]

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