A Mother's Day Blog-a-thon

One of my favorite holidays is just around the corner.  Of course, I am a MOM!  I love having my children pay attention to me :)  I enjoy not having to cook (unless my own mother visits and then I want to spoil her with a lovely meal :)   It is a time when a mom gets to enjoy being spoiled a bit!  By the time Mother's Day rolls around, spring has shown her lovely face and we begin to enjoy a bit of warm weather here in our...

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Passionate Patience

To be passionate:  showing strong feelings or intense believe or emotion To be patient:  to be able to wait without becoming annoyed or anxious One word shows action....the other leads us to believe "inaction".  Or rather action without stress or anxiousness. Can we be passionately patient?  I found this paraphrase of Romans 5:3-5 in The Message: "There's more to come: We continue to shout our praise even when we're hemmed...

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Knock Knock...Who's There? Elijah...

Love, betrayal, mystery, murder, war, famine, drought, miracles, adventure, intrigue, faith - only a few of the words we could use to describe the Old Testament of the Bible.  The stories hidden within the pages of this centuries old book are filled with lessons that reach across the millennia.  Men and women who lived, loved, believed and died leaving a trail of stories to be told.  There is no better "storybook" ! One such story...

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