Tag: God's Gifts
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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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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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My Little Angel
When I was growing up we didn’t have much, but at Christmas, my mom always tried to make things a little more special. I remember we had an artificial tree, and in its day, it was pretty cool. Back then of course you didn’t just whip it out of the box and watch the pre-lit…
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No Gifts This Year – Well Maybe Just One
We’re closing in on Christmas and if you’re like me you are probably not even close to ready. Our annual writing of cards is not complete, finalizing ideas for Christmas day snacks not done, oh and getting needed gifts, ya that’s not complete yet either. Stress, stress, stress…sound familiar? Over the past few days, I’ve…
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A Prayer for Joy
The weeks are sure flying by and we are already into this third week of Advent. As you recall from a previous post in this little blog about the Colors of Advent, the third week is about joy. So today I just wanted to share a prayer of Joy for Advent. Hope it makes a…
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The Cookies and the Kids
Boy doesn’t the title of today’s little blog sound like a great title for a movie? Well, maybe not so much, 🙂 . Anyway, just wanted to share a little about a fun event that is happening this weekend. Each year at our church, the second Sunday of December is “cookie Sunday”. Sounds pretty good…
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Joseph’s Lullaby
Over the past week or so I’ve been listening to Christmas songs, yes I know, go figure, anyway… I’ve been trying to listen to songs that aren’t the mainstay. Don’t get me wrong, I love the favorites, O’ Come All Ye Faithful is my absolute favorite, oh and yes I’ll even turn up Mariah’s “All…
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Not How Many but What
Last night after dinner my husband and I spent time wrapping some gifts. Usually, after we’ve brought home packages, I go through and sort out the purchases by who they are going to. You know you look to make sure when gifts are being opened, it’s “equitable”. I know I’m not alone in this thinking,…
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