Tag: Bible
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How Wise Is Up?
I’m an experience person more than a thing person. Things meet needs and can wear out or break down. Experiences are memories that can last and be relived in my mind. When my daughter and her best friend drove down to Albuquerque and got to see a Balloon Festival, that was an experience I wish…
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Through H and M And It Still Stands
We have a massive live oak tree in our back yard. It was planted there as a spindly five-foot sapling when we bought our home twenty-nine years ago. It has put up with the craziness of our Florida weather, existing through hurricane after hurricane, When Hurricane Charlie came through in 2004, we were warned that…
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Grin A Little Grin With Me
Babies typically aren’t born with smiles. People have explained that an early grin is just a matter of gas, not an intentional attitude of joy. Babies learn to respond as they grow, connecting with those who interact with them, figuring out what works to bring the best responses from those they’re with. Because God made…
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There Is A Season
We have two seasons in Florida, as opposed to the more common four: green and less green. We’re approaching the less green time now, though it hasn’t really hit yet because we keep getting these hurricanes that insist on delivering more water than we really want. So green it still is. At this time of…
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A Little Here; Too Much There
Photo courtesy of Jonathan Kemper on Unsplash We’d heard of the coming of Hurricane Helene for days. The cities along the western coast of Florida, especially near the Big Bend as the panhandle juts to the left, were at the greatest risk. There was an expectation of a storm surge, flooding, and high winds that…
Tip of My Iceberg 