Trust God
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Learning Curve or Patient God?
As many of you know, I am going through the process of selling and buying a house. I have prayed diligently and all along I have said I trust God to provide and direct (1 Pet. 5:7). While making this size of financial decision is important and I believe God wants us to be good stewards of the blessings He provides, I have even said that this is not a decision with direct eternal impact. We can get to heaven from our current address or any other where we land. So why, last week when a housing inspection put the sale of our current home in jeopardy and ultimately placed…
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An Unusual Thanksgiving Post
The following material may be familiar to some who read it. It is from The Hiding Place, a book written by Corrie Ten Boom. She wrote about some of the experiences that she had while in a Nazi concentration camp. The person identified as Betsie in this material is the sister of Corrie Ten Boom. The material is from a section of the book entitled “Barrack 28.” I’m offering this material at this time for those of us who may be struggling to think of something for which to be thankful at this season of the year or at any time for that matter. It is my conviction that most,…
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Lizards or Alligators
I saw a lizard the other day and it reminded me of a time in my very distant past that has always lived in my memory bank. I grew up in a small town in a time when you walked to town to do your shopping. As a very little girl, I remember what a treat it was to walk with my grandmother to town when she needed to shop. We had to walk past an open area that had a hand rail on one side because the land dropped off on that side of the sidewalk. As I was skipping along beside her (and probably talking), I saw a rather large lizard…
