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Growing in Christ

It is only 10 weeks after the craziness of quarantine began, and I am already beginning to look back on that time with a nostalgic desire to return to the simplicity of – “No, girl! You are stuck at home. You cannot run out for a minute and "fill in the blank!”  My days are still mostly at home. Our family is still “working” under the same roof – Steve downstairs, me upstairs, and Sawyer in her room. We are still avoiding the grocery...

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Reset Your Mind on Christ

A three-bedroom house, a family of nine, and a record console blaring Elvis Presley’s “I’m all Shook Up.” It wasn’t often that the wooden house I grew up in would be rocking, but when my sister Francis would start playing Elvis’s record, each family member would stop in the middle of their chores and do our best to replicate the dance style of the King of Rock & Roll. If you were to ask me what song title I think most depicts my feelings in the last...

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God's Love is Personal

"Long before he laid down the earth’s foundations, he had us in mind, had settled on us as the focus of his love, to be made whole and holy by his love. Long, long ago he decided to adopt us into his family through Jesus Christ. (What pleasure he took in planning this!) He wanted us to enter into the celebration of his lavish gift-giving by the hand of this beloved Son."  Ephesians 1:3-6 Most Wednesdays, I get together with a friend to talk about life and to look at...

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