Tag: Hope
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Blurb for a Fellow Blogger (3)
If you’re on the look out for a devotional collection that plants a scriptural seed and provides the water and fertilizer too, this is it! Here’s a second excellent book, by my blogger friend Bridget Thomas, that contains thirty short chapters, each dedicated to a different facet of the believer’s identity in Christ. A key…
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Leaves By the Door
The custodians at the elementary school where I teach are currently battling leaves. The fallen foliage is on the outside, but it keeps coming in the building—thanks to the ever present Oklahoma wind. At the end of the day, the hallway near pre-kindergarten parent pick up looks like this. Our little leaf litter problem even…
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Being Part of the Team
I once was on a little league baseball team. Apparently, I was the only one who didn’t know it. There’s even an old picture to prove it. I’m standing on the front row– uniform tucked in, with team logo half showing. The bright blue cleats I’m wearing rarely ran around the bases, but they were…
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Hunger Stone
Confession: one of my favorite pass times is checking what’s trending on Wikipedia. Last night I found a captivating article about hunger stones. These are large rocks set into river banks during times of extreme drought. Meant to serve as cautionary signs for those in the future, when such markers become visible it means hard…
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One Piece at a Time
The singer Johnny Cash has a humorous song that’s a classic “Country boy outsmarts the establishment” story. According to the song, in 1949 a young man from Kentucky takes a job on an assembly line in Detroit, Michigan building Cadillacs. He is in awe of the beautiful sedans, but is saddened by the fact that…
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One Firefly Night
Last night, just after dusk, I sat on the back porch taking in the sounds of nature. There were a few crickets and some bird who didn’t know not to sing after sun down. It was all garden variety, until my eye caught a green blink…blink…blink. A firefly! Hyper-focused, I tried to guess where the…
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