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Are You the One or Part of the Ninety-Nine?

I didn’t have an urgent need as I started journaling to the Lord on this day.  It was during summer break after my first year…

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Posted in Christian Living Parenting Teacher

Blocking Me from My Goal

I was in my first year of teaching and at this time I had one of my first challenging students!  My student teaching assignments were…

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Posted in Christian Living Emotions Parenting Relationships

You Stay

From the Journal . . . . July 1997 Lord, I was down last night.  We went to the baseball game with the youth group….

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Don’t Jump

My husband, Mark, has a very good sense of humor.  He used to compare our child-raising efforts to pushing a wheelbarrow full of frogs.  It…

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When Their Pain Becomes Your Own

When your kids grow up and get married or settled in a career they are happy with, You rejoice for them and sigh in relief….

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Posted in Christian Living Parenting Share Your Faith Teaching

Love the People, Hate the Sin.

By the time our children were ready to go to school my husband and I were both believers. We wanted their teachers to have a…

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Posted in Christian Living Family Parenting Prayer

Get the Verses ~ Pray the Verses

I had been talking to the Lord about whatever was going on with me on this Saturday afternoon in 2013.  I was happy because I…

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Do You Have a Prodigal?

People who have committed their lives to the Lord naturally want their children to do the same. When you discover the Lord is the most…

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Feelings or Sin ~~~~~~~ Words We Speak

My journal entries usually include several topics that I have on my mind.   When I hear from the Lord, it’s usually in response to what…

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This is Amazing Grace

In a crowd of people, the father looks for his child.  When they aren’t together, his mind goes to that child throughout the day. Lord,…

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