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Category: JOY in Our Life

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Mum - Post Office Cart

JOY in Our Life: Numbers Do Not Define You – Really!

February 26, 2016 · At 86 years of age Mum McLellan still helps me load parcels for our mail order business onto the Post Office cart each week. Over 80 parcels loaded this blustery cold day of Feb. 26, 2016. Next week she is paying for a ten year extension of her Canadian Passport! Always…
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Coby & Smokey in bed

JOY in Our Life: What Unusual JOY Relationship Do You Have?

February 22, 2016 I picked up this small bed a few weeks back thinking one of the cats would like it. Dear chubby Coby enjoys squeezing into it. Smokey, who thinks he is a dog and fully believes Coby is his mommy, rarely strays far from mommy’s side. I just missed getting a picture of…
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Hat picture behind Pulpit - right hand

JOY in Our Life: Who Says You Can’t Have Fun, Love and JOY in Church?

February 21, 2016 Yup – that’s a pulpit and a love hat on a Sunday morning of worship, praise and learning from God’s Word and having a great time together at the same time. Who says you can’t have fun, love and JOY in Church? The general message this month: if you are not gathering…
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Love Hat - behind Pulpit

JOY in Our Life : Which Hat do You Wear that Shouts out JOY?

February 21, 2016 We are to love God, people and ourselves and to let that love and resulting JOY radiate from us. In my sermon given twice today we spoke of the principle of being careful about whom you listen to. You listen to those who have been where you are and have what you…
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buffet at Mandarin

JOY in Our Life: When is the Last Time You enJOYed a Banquet?

February 18, 2016 It is going on towards lunch time and I am hungry but because of a heavy schedule today have not a lot of time to prepare something. Two days ago we thoroughly enJOYed a two hour lunch at my all time favourite place to dine – the Mandarin Restaurant all-you-can-eat Chinese and…
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JOY in Our Life: Quickly Now – When Was the Last Time You Complimented the “Unique You”?

February 18, 2016 A truth has dawned on me. There are ten scripture verses saying to love your neighbour as yourself. Certainly important. Equally important is to love yourself. Unfortunately, an alarming number of people hate or loath themselves so, is it any wonder why the world is such a mess? Christians in particular often…
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JOY in Our Life: We Really Do Need Each Other – Giving Thanks Where Thanks is Due

I want to publicly thank my husband Bob, daughter Andrea, my sister Wendy, and friends at Grace Church of the Nazarene for walking with me in this long eleven months journey back, particularly in this past two weeks through words of encouragement, wisdom, love and yes prodding where necessary. I acknowledge others who would have…
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JOY in Our Life: In the Game of Life – Name and Claim that Dream

It’s back! In March 2015 I foolishly allowed a group of individuals to openly laugh at and ridicule me, call me inhuman, and to steal my dream and my joy. I believed them. As of Feb. 14, 2016 I have chosen to reclaim my dream; to reclaim my JOY; to be proud of who God…
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JOY in Our Life: When is Work NOT Work?

“Successful people doing their passion 14 hours a day. It doesn’t feel like work. Nice!I” (as noted by a family routinely working 14 hours a day, having fun doing it) I say, YES! When you love what you do and you do what you love, it isn’t work. I have felt this way for many…
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JOY In Our Life: Flat Tire

JOY In Our Life: God works on our behalf even before we know we need something. He employs many souls to be His hands such as happened to me today just outside of Hamilton. 1.This a.m. while in a grocery store parking lot a fellow rapped on my window and told me my rear passenger…
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