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“Joy is God’s smile; love is God’s laughter.” ― Matshona Dhliwayo Do you love to smile? Smiles can make you feel better even when you don’t really feel as though you have any reason to smile. I just wrote a post about how smiles are good for us last month. So this seemed the perfect time to share a devotional about …
“It is the life of the crystal, the architect of the flake, the fire of the frost, the soul of the sunbeam. This crisp winter air is full of it.” ~John Burroughs Winter hasn’t shown up on the calendar, but it has shown up around here in the air. No snow to notice yet, but that too will come. In …
“Dogs are great. Bad dogs, if you can really call them that, are perhaps the greatest of them all.”—John Grogan Any of you who follow me here on my blog or my Facebook page, know Frankie. I wouldn’t call him a “bad” dog. Instead I like to say he’s a good dog some of the time and as the years …
We had homecoming at our little country church today. We celebrated 210 years as a body of believers. To get a feeling of how long ago people gathered to establish Goshen Baptist Church, James Madison was the 4th president of our United States and the country was fighting the War of 1812. I love Homecoming Day because I get to …
“Far up in the deep blue sky, Great white clouds are floating by; All the world is dressed in green; Many happy birds are seen, Roses bright and sunshine clear Show that lovely June is here.” — F. G. Sanders People often say which time of year they love best. Winter doesn’t get picked all that much and summer, once …
A little person in a little place can use a little thing, perform a little task, and receive a great reward. – Jack Hyles When I was a young girl, the honking sound of geese passing overhead was enough to make me and everybody else in my house drop whatever we were doing and rush outside. There in our yard, we …
“Close your eyes and turn your face into the wind. Feel it sweep along your skin in an invisible ocean of exultation. Suddenly, you know you are alive.” ― Vera Nazarian, The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration March in my part of the country can show you snow, rain, sunshine, sleet, and clouds – sometimes all in the same day. But the one thing you can …
Winter sunlight is a warm old soul, spreading love in the bitter cold. ~Angie Weiland-Crosby Don’t you just love a winter day filled with sunlight? Perhaps you have a favorite chair by a window where the sun streams in to warm you when winter has thrown cold winds our way. Sunlight can make everything more beautiful and cheer our souls. Sunlight …
You cannot fly like an eagle with the wings of a wren. ~William Henry Hudson As I wrote in my last post, our family went on a short vacation to the Barren River Lake. The lake was beautiful and I was especially excited when I read in the information about the place that October started the time of the …
Life ‘s beautiful when you learn to see the good in everything instead of seeing the flaws. ~Jr. Ronaldo How we see things is often influenced by our perspective or attitude. Someone once saw the thistle bloom and thought it lovely enough to plant in their garden. The seeds flew out and landed on new fields where it had never been …