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March

Let’s do this . . .

Tuesday | Filed in: Uncategorized

Thanks to Debi, Stacey and Leslie for your comments. I appreciate the encouragement and your loyal readership. I’ve been thinking this over for a few weeks now, and I had a long conversation with my mother last night. I think it’s time to close shop here and move to something more personal.

So this blog is closing and I won’t be posting any more to it. I’ll leave it up for a few weeks, as I transfer the Simple Compassion stuff to the website. I’ll email everyone when that is ready to go.

I have set up a personal blog and you are invited over there to keep up with me. This blog is not a ministry themed blog, but just a personal journal where I’ll write often about my life, what I’m reading and watching, and whatever comes to mind. You can visit the new site by clicking here. I am excited about it and am looking forward to posting often. See you there! Continue reading

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March

A Change Will Do Me Good, I hope!

Monday | Filed in: Website Issues

I realize it’s no big surprise that I’ve struggled a bit lately with the blog. But just because I haven’t been posting, doesn’t mean I haven’t been thinking a lot about this blog. And my thoughts have run the gamut from “I’m just gonna pull the plug on this thing” to “I need a completely new focus” and everything else in between.

I like to write and posting on… Continue reading

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March

Scriptures for Today

Wednesday | Filed in: Encouragement | From God's Word | My Life

Here are some verses that God has been using in my life lately. . .

Only let your manner of life be worthy of the gospel of Christ, so that whether I come and see you or am absent, I may hear of you that you are standing firm in one spirit, with one mind striving side by side for the faith of the gospel, – Philippians 1:27

Do all things without grumbling… Continue reading

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March

Simple Compassion – Week 10: Heroes

Wednesday | Filed in: Simple Compassion

Our chapter this week is about heroes and it’s pretty timely in my life because I’ve been doing some thinking lately about the people I would consider heroes. In some ways, it disturbs me that many of my heroes aren’t real people – they’re people I’ve met in books! Although I do have a list of personal heroes that either exist now or did so some time in the past… Continue reading

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March

Prayer Prompt: Clarity

Tuesday | Filed in: Prayer

It’s time for another prayer prompt. To refresh your memory, here’s how it works:

1. I’ll post a prayer prompt and my personal prayer using that prompt.

2. You pray for me and add your personal prayer in the comments.

3. I’ll pray for you in return and you can pray for someone else who comments.

Ready? Here we go . . .

Dear God… Continue reading

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March

February Reading Recap

Tuesday | Filed in: Books | Monthly Reading Recap

I did a bit of reading in February, although I feel like I spent much of the month in the doctor’s office! I have been reading much more than I was the previous months, so I hope to keep that pace moving up. I have lots of great books I’m eager to get to.

For nonfiction reading in February, I managed to finish four books, two medical books related… Continue reading

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February

Simple Compassion – Week 9: hand-me-downs

Sunday | Filed in: Simple Compassion

This week the focus is on handing down something to our community and families that matters, that makes a positive difference their lives. It is easy to forget that our actions are doing this much more than our words at times. It takes deliberate time and attention to look at what our actions are handing down to those we live with and serve.

We are instructed to invite God… Continue reading

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February

A Picture of Hope

Friday | Filed in: Encouragement | My Life

I went on a mother-daughter outing with my mom yesterday to the National Craft Expo in Baltimore. It was a fun day with plenty of great craft vendors to visit. While much of it was beautiful work and all of it was highly creative and highly expensive, most of it was well out of our price range! But it… Continue reading

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February

Simple Compassion – Week 8: Wrecked

Sunday | Filed in: Simple Compassion

While there were plenty of great thoughts in this chapter, I simply must point out her reference to Ephesians 4:1, which tells us to walk worthy of the calling we have received. I think God is telling me something here because that verse has come up three times now this past week! Hmmm…

What does it mean to walk worthy of your calling?

In the church environment I… Continue reading

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February

Simple Compassion – Week 7: Downward

Friday | Filed in: Simple Compassion

This chapter gives us a sobering reminder that Christ chose a life of poverty. There was no one more entitled to live a life of ease and prosperity. His father in heaven owns everything – he could have had it all! Yet he chose to be the least of them to serve all of us.

I have seen a clear correlation between physical neediness and spiritual neediness. It seems… Continue reading

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February

I’ve Claimed It!

Wednesday | Filed in: From God's Word | My Life

Have you ever heard the old Baptist mantra “name it and claim it”? I grew up in a very fundamental Baptist church and often heard that phrase. Basically, the idea is to name a portion of Scripture and claim the truth of it as a promise from God. At the time, I thought this was a bit ridiculous, not because of the idea so much, but because of what they… Continue reading

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February

Prayer Prompt: Motivate Me

Wednesday | Filed in: Prayer

We haven’t done one of these in a few weeks, so to refresh your memory, here’s how it works:

1. I’ll post a prayer prompt and my personal prayer using that prompt.

2. You pray for me and add your personal prayer in the comments.

3. I’ll pray for you in return and you can pray for someone else who comments.

Ready? Here we go … Continue reading

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