Life…Under Construction
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Ranting from My Soapbox
*beginning of rant* I am a follower of Christ by His calling. I am a Baptist by theological choice. I firmly believe that the Bible is the living, active Word of God. I will do my best to defend as honestly as I know how what God\’s Word has to say. I don\’t have a…
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I Like Me Better When I Focus on YOU
I have been filling up journals since I first got married (a LONG time ago). A few of them I plan to burn. While it is interesting to see how I’ve grown over the years, I REALLY don’t like the scared person I used to be. My journals are filled with so many fears about…
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Sick Day
Woke up this morning with a mega headache, which made my stomach ache. Took the day off and slept most of the day away. What i would like is to be able to spend a day or two by myself in my house while I am feeling well. So much to do, but when one…
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Real Life
\”The great thing, if one can, is to stop regarding all the unpleasant things as interruptions of one\’s \’own\’, or \’real\’ life. The truth is of course that what one calls the interruptions are precisely one\’s real life–the life God is sending one day by day: what one calls one\’s \’real life\’ is a phantom…
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The Comfort of God
\”The problem with God isn’t that He has been tried and found wanting, it is that He has been wanting to be tried. People who could find all of the peace, solace and strength they could ever need and more hit bottom because they refuse to ask God for the help He willingly and lovingly…
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The Weight of Tearlessness
I have read a couple of great blog posts from friends the last couple of days. Both spoke about the need to face our struggles and rely on God to help us. One friend jokingly said, \”If only there were calories in tears.\” I responded to her, \”Tears take a different sort of weight off.\”…
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This is What I Want (aka Pipe Dreams)
1. all news stations are biased, and if you don\’t believe that, then your eyes are not open 2. every politician lies, otherwise NO ONE would ever be elected based on what they really plan to do when they get in office (point in case–every president, congressman, senator, governor, etc., that this country has ever…
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Winter Haven by Athol Dickson…mysterious little town
For years Vera Gamble carried the guilt of having let her autistic brother walk away from their home, never to be heard from again. Then, 13 years after Siggy disappeared, Vera received a phone call that changed her life forever. Siggy\’s body had been found. In just a matter of days, Vera left the comfort…
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River Rising by Athol Dickson
Pilotville is a town built on stilts and lies. It’s the place where Hale Poser, who was raised in an orphanage, arrives looking for answers to his past—“his mother, or his father, or at least a tombstone with their name—his own name, whatever that might be.” What he discovers is a town that is full…
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The Cure by Athol Dickson
How would you respond if someone offered you a pill that could cure your addiction instantly? She dropped the envelope in the offering plate. The note inside it read, “May the Lord forgive me, I should have done this long ago. Whoever opens this, please give it to the pastor. He’ll know what to do.…
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