My mind has a hard timing thinking about how many people there are walking the earth. I find myself thinking about these things often, particularly when I am with large crowds. At the State Fair, for example, sometimes I try to imagine how many people have walked down the same path I’m…
Read moreThe prayer request popped up on my computer screen: When you all have a minute, please read my blog or see my post of about an hour ago on FB. Girls, we need to pray for rain on the plains of Kenya! It is serious. Lynn and Angie, the woman…
Read moreIt’s True, I have a bad reputation. My friends in the neighborhood all know about me. My family has known for a long time. I have an issue. Sometimes I catch an off-hand word about my peculiarity or a casual remark in conversations in the yard or at church. I…
Read moreISAIAH 43:18-19 “The Lord says, ‘Do not cling to events of the past or dwell on what happened long ago. Watch for the new thing I am going to do. It is happening already – you can see it now!’ As a young teen, I remember visiting my friend and…
Read moreA couple of years ago, while on a family vacation, we went to a diamond mine in Arkansas. We went to dig for diamonds. Upon arriving at the mine, I was not at all impressed with what I saw. Once we purchased our pails, our strainers and our shovels, we…
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