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  • Welcome, 2009!

    As the first day of this new year draws to a close, I don't know what is coming-- what this year holds for me, let alone what it holds for you and the rest of the world. Not surprising, eh? I'm a morta…

  • I stumbled across this old will while searching online for "Susannah means" (what the derivation of the name is); I am sure there are many other wills that would illustrate this more clearly, but reading over thi…

  • Distracted?

    How quickly we can become isolated from reality, our senses dulled by the superficial until we lose sight of basic truths! What is the One Thing in life? He is. Do our lives reflect that…

  • Reflections on Psalm 18:30-36

    Sometimes when I read a passage of Scripture, I try to write it out in words applying to myself, and including alternate readings/translations of different words, so that I can better gain from the Word. And I also a…

  • I'm not sure just why I love to garden. There's something amazingly fufilling in planting a seed, seeing it sprout, watching it grow, and rejoicing in its fruit or flowers! But all the times. . . when it seems…

  • A thought that came to me last night while petting the cat (I was in a reflective mood): Blessings are always larger in mass, deeper in value, surpassing in abundance, than trials. . .but trials always seem to fee…

  • More reflective quotes

    (From Worth It All by Lilia Bernhardt) "The budding rose can be destroyed so quickly. Rudely torn from the bush, the delicate petals crushed underfoot, the bruised fragrance is left to waft its lovelines…

  • Monday Fundae!

    All right, this isn't quite a normalMonday Fundae. And the events described took place on a Tuesday,so that doesn't quite fit, either. It may not make you laugh--oreven smile--but it does have laughter and smiles…

  • Reflective quotes from a year of time

    "It is done. The dream is in a million pieces. I am hurting. . .This is harder than anything I have ever gone through before. . .[yet] I believe God is sovereign. . . ." ----------------------- "God …

  • What great love. . .

    I had wanted to write a post about love, human love and how God's love can flow through us, for Valentine's Day. This isn't what I was planning on writing, but it's just all coming together tonight and I think it is…