1st Sunday Devotional – Joy, Joy, Joy

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Some people at the beginning of each new year like to pick a word for their year. Perhaps kindness. Or  peace. Or perseverance. Or patience. Something that the individuals want to improve in their day to day life. I’ve never done that. Never picked one word. I think I have too many words zooming around in my head to settle …

Two Thousand Twenty Five

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Happy New Year! Can you believe it is actually 2025? Two thousand twenty-five. If you are just a youngster, say 50 or younger, you’re probably thinking of course it’s 2025. You might have been just a kid when we switched from 1900 something to 2000 something. For some of us that came a little later in life and was a …

1st Sunday Devotional – A New Year Awaits

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“We will open the book. Its pages are blank. We are going to put words on them ourselves. The book is called opportunity and its first chapter is New Year’s Day.”~Edith Lovejoy Pierce It’s the first Sunday of the first month of a New Year. 2022. All those twos. In a couple of hundred years people will be able to …

A New Year on the Way

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“Today is the first day of the rest of your life.” That quote is on a refrigerator magnet my daughter brought home years ago. We’ve had a lot of new years and new days since then, but that doesn’t make the saying any less true. Then we might remember  that yesterday’s gone, tomorrow’s not here, and all we have is …