Sunday Thoughts – Waking Up to Nature’s Beauty

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1st Sunday Devotional on a 2nd Sunday… Have you ever taken a walk on a beautiful day and not seen the soft white clouds in the deep blue sky? I have. Have you passed close to a honeysuckle vine and not noticed the sweet odor? Have you felt a bug on your shoulder and brushed it off without checking to …

Take a Walk with Frankie and Me

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Take a walk with Frankie and me down the creek as we go hunting wildflowers. Every spring I try to find a good day, at least once and even better twice, in the spring to go wildflower hunting. It’s not an easy quest. The path down to the creek is steep and rocky. You can slide down if you’re not …

Neighborhood Walking

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Walking is man’s best medicine. ~Hippocrates If you are one of my Facebook buddies, you know I enjoy walking. It’s exercise. It’s nature searching. It’s sharing. Most of the time I walk alone. Well, not really alone. With my dog, Oscar, although this summer when the temperature hovered around 100, Oscar preferred the air-conditioning and not walking. I took a …

Spotted on My Walks

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“Happiness is a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but which if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.” ~Nathaniel Hawthorne I love spotting things on my walks like this butterfly. I’ve been pursuing him or his brothers and sisters for the last couple of months in order to take his photo. They were all …

Singing, Walking, and Writing

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–Here’s the Patriot Quartet singing at Goshen’s Homecoming. That’s our church and that’s Darrell on the right with the patriotic tie. If you like Southern Gospel you would probably like their sound and their new song “An American Christian” that’s getting some play on gospel stations around the country right now. They’re going to have their Homecoming singing on Friday …