Buckets-Broomsticks- and Bottle Caps: When baseball great, Hank Aron was a poor kid in Alabama, he wanted to play major league baseball someday. He aspired to be a great hitter, but how? He owned neither a baseball nor bat.
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Sunday morning, on the way to church, our granddaughter, Sabria, rolled down her back window a bit in order to make the small “America flag” (that’s what she calls it) she was holding flutter in the breeze.
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Many today think that God’s silence within the Scripture grants permission to act. In contrast, there are others today who say that if God is silent on a subject, this means we cannot do it! Which viewpoint is the Scriptural viewpoint? What does the Scripture say?
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WONDERING ABOUT WONDER - Have you ever had instances where similar thoughts or circumstances keep recurring on a frequent basis?
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Some things that come to mind now that I’m looking at 83 years: We tend not to see things as they are; we see things as we are.
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This week, I’ll tackle the question of “what time of day are you happiest and/or most productive?” I got several responses. Most response were, as expected, in the morning. Some may say “I’m not a morning person”. Or maybe, as I am, “I’m a night-owl”. On average, people are more productive in
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A few days ago we honored the brave men and women who gave their lives for this great country. Originally referred to as “Decoration Day,” the holiday originated after the Civil War as Americans would decorate the graves of fallen soldiers with flowers each year.
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Being a recipe collector, I have been searching for new summer recipes. I like to mix in new recipes with the ones my family and I have enjoyed for years. Some of the new-to-me recipes that sound delicious are listed below as well as the website – in case you want to search, too.
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In her book, The Cruelest Month, Louise Penny’s character, Ruth Zardo, becomes a surrogate mother for two hatchling ducks, Rosa and Lilium. The townspeople watch as the eccentric woman walks around town quacking, while the two little ones follow closely on her heels. They quickly notice that Li
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David, the sweet psalmist of Israel (II Sam. 23:1), penned a song concerning the home in Psalm 127. He wrote, “As arrows are in the hand of a mighty man; so are children of the youth. Happy is the man that hath his quiver full of them…” (Ps. 127:4-5).
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