“Then the way you live will always honor and please the Lord, and your lives will produce every kind of good fruit. All the while, you will grow as you learn to know God better and better. We also pray that you will be strengthened with all his glorious power…
Read moreI remember when my children were in school and they would come home reluctant to show us their report card or a grade on a project that they had worked so diligently over. Sometimes the grades would bring a tear or even fear that we, as their parents, would be…
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Sometimes I just need a vacation – a vacation from my problems as “Bob Wiley” in the movie “What About Bob?” said. Life can be stressful, and getting away to a different place can be just what I need. However, if there’s one thing I’ve learned over the years, I…
Read moreI have known the promise since I was a little girl. Giving our cares to Jesus brings peace. I understood it in the context of a happy childhood. It sounded nice, and I believed it. Life has a way of taking lofty ideas and flinging them down to earth. Reality…
Read moreI’m reading Book of Everyday Wisdom, by Sadie and Bessie Delaney. These two “colored” (their choice of self-descriptive) women lived to be 109 and 105! Their father was born a slave, and they were born in 1889 and 1891; both died in the late 1990s. Imagine living through Jim Crow,…
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