1st Sunday Devotionals – When a Dog Can Walk No More

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You will show me the path of life; in Your presence is fullness of joy; at Your right hand are pleasures forevermore. …Psalm 16:11 (NKJV) There’s nothing quite so sad as looking back at a dog sitting in the path no longer able to walk with you. I like dogs. When I was around ten, I begged and begged for …

Mining Parenting Memories on Grandparents’ Day

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Nobody can do for little children what grandparents do. Grandparents sort of sprinkle stardust over the lives of little children. ~Alex Haley We have Mother’s Day, Father’s Day and we even have a Children’s Day. But this Sunday is Grandparents’ Day. You don’t hear much about that because most of us celebrate those grandmoms and granddads on Mother’s and Father’s …

Color the World

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Once upon a time several years ago, I think before my first inspirational novel, Scent of Lilacs, was published, I played with the idea of writing a book of devotions for the casual hiker. I hoped to come up with fifty-two, one a week. Devotional Thoughts for Hikers. Well, I might have needed a better title than that. I wrote a dozen …