Boxing Day

Today is Boxing Day, once a day for rewards for faithful servants, now for shopping and visiting friends. In America, it is often a day for bargain hunting and cleaning up from Christmas celebrations. The gifts are opened, the feasts’ remnants less appetizing and the children and adults cranky from…

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Look Beyond the Darkness

“The people that walked in darkness have seen a great light: they that dwelt in the land of the shadow of death, upon them hath the light shined. Thou hast multiplied the nation, thou hast increased their joy; they joy before thee according to the joy in harvest, as men…

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Storm Preparation

The force of the wind was so loud and compelling to watch from our windows that we could think of nothing else until it stopped. We stood for four hours in the dim daylight and watched as the landscape outside changed forever. When it stopped, we emerged from the house…

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Reduced to lowest terms

I was not a talented mathematician. When my sons were in school, helping with fractions was the bane of my existence. No one could have television until homework was checked. Very often, the boys would have the right answer but had not reduced the answer to its simplest form. You…

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Things We Learn in the Storm

We saw the Hurricane Michael Wednesday, October 10, and God was with us. The sound was terrifying. The force was devastating. We only lost the garage door, the barn roof and twelve trees. Others lost their homes and belongings. Eighteen who did not heed the warnings died. Mexico Beach is…

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