We are now entering the busiest time of the year for just about everyone. On top of our normally busy lives, the holiday season brings…
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Category: Flowers for MY Pastor’s Wife
The Precious Gift of Knowing God
As retirement draws closer, I’m making a list of things I want to do more intentionally. After working for 40 years from 9:00 to 5:00,…
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A suspenseful home improvement show follows a young couple who did all their homework, had all the reports, and bought a lovely, renovated 125-year-old two-story home. Then,…
View More Inspect Your FoundationMy Pastor’s Wife
“What! When? Yikes! O.K. OH NOOOOOOO! MY PASTOR’S WIFE IS COMING FOR TEA!” Question: Did I deep clean my home and bake my favourite treats…
View More My Pastor’s WifeThe Perfect Word
“In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God. All things were made through him,…
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I have taught piano for over 40 years. So many children, a few adults, some were memorable, a few hard to forget. One little boy’s…
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Have you ever tried to use your service or status within the church or organization to make a point? As a long-time church member and…
View More Authorities, Attitudes, and Pleasing GodCasting Up Prayers
Our family has had a particularly stressful few years. One afternoon my husband and two teenage daughters reflected on how the women in our family…
View More Casting Up PrayersFruitful Abiding: Equipping Others to Know and Use Their Spiritual Gifts
“I am the vine; you are the branches. Whoever abides in me and I in him, he it is that bears much fruit, for apart…
View More Fruitful Abiding: Equipping Others to Know and Use Their Spiritual GiftsWhat I Learned through Recent Struggles
“Therefore encourage one another and build one another up, just as you are doing,” 1 Thessalonians 5:11. During the last six months, I have been…
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