Weekend Reflection: Hope

One Glorious Bloom From a Thanksgiving Gift Bouquet. 2012. A Fresh Leaf  Maybe 2012 was your best year ever. Maybe you can’t wait for it to end. Either way, the new year comes wrapped in hope.  Happy New Year!  21 This I recall to my mind,Therefore I have hope.22 The Lord’s lovingkindnesses indeed never cease,For […]


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Weekend Reflection: Gentle Wonders

Cadence. Christmas Day, 2006. 8 In the same region there were some shepherds staying out in the fields and keeping watch over their flock by night. 9 And an angel of the Lord suddenly stood before them, and the glory of the Lord shone around them; and they were terribly frightened. 10 But the angel […]


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Horror and Outrage

Cadence, Sawyer, Elaine: Group Hug Beyond Imagination We mourn together for lives cut short in an ugly blast of gunfire. One moment, twenty beautiful young students and the adults entrusted with their education were studying the chalkboard, perhaps, or bent over worksheets.  And then suddenly, we were all robbed of their lives. A nation grieves […]


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Weekend Reflection: Spoiler

3 And I heard a loud voice from the throne, saying, “Behold, the tabernacle of God is among men, and He will dwell among them, and they shall be His people, and God Himself will be among them, 4 and He will wipe away every tear from their eyes; and there will no longer be […]


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Sticky Christmas to You!

Christmas: A Blur of Boxes and Bows Lasting Gifts If I had to sum up my childhood Christmas memories in one word, the word would be slippery. Anticipation built like a stubborn fever, depriving me of sleep as I stared out the window from my bed, straining my ear for the sound of sleighbells flying through […]


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