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  • October 20, 2020October 20, 2020
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Study Bible: A Review of the New NIV Study Bible

  • Book Reviews

These times we live in seem full of chaos and disorder. We wonder where to turn for help or to make sense of life. If you study history, you see this is nothing new. There are many periods of unrest, disease and pain. Thankfully, there […]

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  • August 12, 2020April 2, 2022
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Freedom to Spread Your Wings and Fly

  • Audio

We all want to be free, but what is true freedom? The poem came to me quickly one night during an online writing session with friends. The prompt was: She Flew. First, I began to write and did not lay down my pen until the […]

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  • June 9, 2020June 18, 2020
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Tears, Hard Conversations and Joy

  • Grief and Healing

Tears don’t usually come easy for me. I don’t always show the emotion, though sometimes tears well up in my eyes. Most of the time they disperse quickly and the feeling is gone. Sometimes they come pouring out but not for long.   I’ve told […]

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  • April 17, 2020April 2, 2022
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Shalom: Finding Peace and Wholeness

  • Celebration

Would shalom have shown up more often if I had taken the time to notice the good in each situation? If I had practiced more gratitude?

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  • March 4, 2020March 4, 2021
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Story: A Picture of Life’s Journey

  • Inspirational

I am participating in a Five Minute Friday 10 Day Writing Challenge. We can write for 5 minutes or more, but the goal is to write every day. We began on March 2, with the word TODAY, and I wrote for five minutes whatever came […]

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  • February 17, 2020February 20, 2020
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Wind: Enjoying Nature’s Gifts

  • Inspirational

The wind and I go back a long way. In my younger years I would stay outside as long as could before a storm…

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  • January 6, 2020April 15, 2021
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Day: Glimpses of My Life this New Year

  • A Simple Woman's Daybook

For my first post of the new year, I thought I’d start with an entry for The Simple Woman’s Daybook.  A lot has happened in our lives since my last daybook post. We’ve begun a new decade and my family is minus a member as […]

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  • December 14, 2019December 11, 2021
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Time Doesn’t Stop: Learn to Enjoy Life

  • Art and Poetry

This post is an updated version of a post I wrote nearly four years ago.  The poem was first published on my former blog May 3, 2015. It reminds us to slow down and enjoy life. We know that time is always ticking away. Sometimes […]

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  • October 30, 2019July 20, 2022
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Finding Hope in God and a Lament

  • Hope

Are you feeling heavy with burdens that seem too hard to bear? Do you sometimes wish you could crawl into a hole and disappear?  In this troubled world we live in, have we tried finding hope in God? FINDING HOPE IN GOD As I reading […]

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  • October 12, 2019October 14, 2019
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Walking the Doodle Trail, Pickens, SC

  • Haiku

For the second time this week, my husband and I drove to the nearby town of Pickens, SC, to take a walk on the Doodle Trail. It used to be a railroad route but has been made into a lovely paved trail for bike riding […]

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