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The Eleventh Hour is a phrase meaning at the last moment, taken from a passage in the Parable of the Workers in the Vineyard in the King James Bible, Matthew 20:1-16. In that story the owner of a vineyard goes out and hires workers early in the morning and then two more times a little later in the day and …
Crows squawked raucously in the trees. It sounded like they were tearing something apart, something they didn’t even want, just for the fun of destroying it. ~Janet Fitch The last two mornings when I was our early walking my dogs I’ve seen a number of crows fly from the west to the east. One other day I’ve seen them …
When you are a dog lover like me and you write stories to share with readers, you might come up with some four-legged furry characters from time to time. So far I haven’t put Frankie in a story yet, but here in this picture he looks like he’s telling me that might be a fun idea. Well, actually he’s insisting …
\ “There is magic in the night when pumpkins glow by moonlight.” Unknown Last night was Halloween. Some people have fun on Halloween. Others don’t like the night at all. These days it’s mostly a fun night for kids to dress up in a wide assortment of costumes and go out on their streets to collect a little candy. Or …
“In family relationships, love is really spelled T.I.M.E.” – Dieter F. Uchtdorf It’s been a tough year for extended families. To get together or not to get together? Events and family gatherings we have taken for granted all our lives are now questions of should you or shouldn’t you do them. Reunions have been postponed a year. Birthdays celebrated without …
Not long ago I got to thinking about the odd moments that can rise from the murky depths of my memory, nudged out to my consciousness by a chance word, an image or even a sniff of some aroma. Sometimes photo can bring up that memory too the way this photo does of a walk in the woods one autumn …
Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower. Albert Camus Autumn is a beautiful time in Kentucky, but I always want the leaves to cling to the branches of the maples a little longer. Some maples are still showing off their colorful leaves but the ones in my yard let theirs drift down to be chewed up by …
Have you ever heard somebody say something or someone threw a monkey wrench into it or maybe just a wrench into it? Here’s the meaning for that phrase from the free dictionary. “Sabotage or frustrate a project or plans, as in The boss threw a monkey wrench into our plans when he said we’d have to work Saturday. This transfer …
Welcome to the Christian Fiction Scavenger Hunt! If you’ve just discovered the hunt, be sure to start at Stop #1, and collect the clues through all the stops, in order, so you can enter to win one of our top 5 grand prizes! The hunt BEGINS on 10/15 at noon MST with Stop #1 at LisaTawnBergren.com. Hunt through our loop …
Back when you were a kid, did you ever take part in a scavenger hunt? Or maybe you were the one figuring out the clues to make the hunt fun? I’ve done both. When I was a kid, my sisters and I would sometimes do a scavenger hunt or something like one by writing the clues on strips of paper …