Tag: Christmas
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Mary’s Song of Praise
A friend of mine sends me a scripture reading and reflection each morning. These last few weeks before Christmas, he has been focusing his reflections on the season of Advent, of course. They have been helping me to take time each morning, slow down just a bit, and truly reflect on the preparation for the…
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The Christmas Card
Last night we stopped by the mailbox on the way into our community. My husband got back in the car and, as usual this time of year we looked at the envelopes and who they were from. Ahh, the daily group of Christmas cards from family and friends. I love opening these and catching up on the latest…
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Real or Fake Tree?
Oh, the variety of Christmas catalogs have started to arrive 🙂 . Last night when we picked up the mail there was an advertisement for Balsam Hill. If you are like me you can waste hours just looking through this catalog. I love to look at the beautifully decorated spaces, they put Christmas literally everywhere…
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On the Fifth Day of Christmas
Go ahead you know you want to finish that verse… “My true love gave to me, five gold rings”. 🙂 I hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas and you were able to spend it with loved ones. We made it to Indiana to spend the holiday with family, and although not everyone could be there…
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The North Star
As I start this little blog this morning, I’d like to say THANK YOU to all of you who lifted prayers for us yesterday. They were felt and they made such a difference, thank you so much for your prayers and your kind words. God has guided us to continue to follow that North Star…
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So Much to be Thankful For
We started out a few days ago to head north to visit our family for Christmas. Unlike most trips, we’ve planned it out to make several stops and not do the “all nighter” we might have done when we were younger. Well, yesterday we had a little setback, and let’s just say we stayed an…
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Winter Solstice – Woo Hoo
Yes, today marks the winter solstice. What’s this you ask? Well if you want the technical definition the winter solstice, also called the hibernal solstice, occurs when either of the Earth’s poles reaches its maximum tilt away from the Sun. This happens twice yearly, once in each hemisphere. This scientific occurrence will happen at officially…
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Slow Down to Speed Up
Yesterday morning after our work out our coach was leading us through some stretching exercises. As we began that process he said something that has stuck with me, he said, “Sometimes we have to slow down to speed up. Sometimes when you are training you have to drop down in weight to care for your…
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Mary Did You Know?
Here we are, just six days away from Christmas, and if you’re like me, you’ve been playin’ the Christmas tunes quite non-stop 🙂 . I’ve put together a little playlist of favorites for this year and this song, Mary Did You Know, has been running through my head. I can’t even imagine the weight that…
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Loving Yourself
Yesterday was busy. The Wreaths Across America event, thanks for your kind thoughts about this event. It was great to see so much activity around it, and so many of you participating as well in your own communities. We also had our little community holiday gathering with great food and socializing. We finished the evening…
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