JOY in Our Life: Sometimes JOY pops up and grabs you when you least expect it. A couple of weeks back I felt prompted to pray for a woman who has purchased education materials from my JOY Center of Learning business. So I did. A week ago I was at a store a few blocks…
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A Journey of the Heart Life is a journey, A journey of the heart. We travelled together, But for now, we’re apart. Please don’t cry for me. I’m where I’m glad to be. I’ve arrived at the place Christ has prepared for me. I’m just steps ahead, A few heartbeats away. Your journey continues But…
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It can be easy to get bogged down in difficult or totally disastrous times. “Where is God in all of this? “How can I be joyful in such an awful world?” We may forget the Bible reminds us in Matthew 5:45 that “the rain falls on the just and the unjust.” We must never forget…
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My thumb is always very painful so I recently made a splint to keep the knuckle from bending. It took a lot of work to create it with my right hand, considering I am left handed. As I was bagging groceries I realized my thumb was in significant pain and my splint was gone. I…
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JOY in Our Life : Sometimes something just does not make any sense, no matter how hard you work at coming up with an explanation or reason. No amount of blaming, playing the “if only I had …” or “had not …” games where you fill in the …will resolve the questions of how or…
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Have you ever noticed memories, physical sensations, and feelings sometimes just pop up when least expected? The mind is strange. Perhaps as an adult you have experienced extreme excitement and anticipation, just like you felt when you were a young child opening gifts for your birthday or at Christmas. Back then you could hardly contain…
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JOY in Our Garden: Quickly now, looking at these four lovely tulips, state out loud four ways in which you are blessed, right now, right in this moment. That probably did not take much effort. But, how long has it been since you did an exercise like this? And yes, it is an exercise. It…
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JOY in Our Life: Majune is my special month. Sometimes the “normal” just doesn’t fit your needs and so I arbitrarily chose many years ago to create a new frame of reference. For me, from mid-May to mid-June (Majune) marks many times of sad and of happy memories. The pictures of my back yard with…
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JOY in Our Garden: On this day of April 9, 2016 the snow has melted away from a small patch in our garden, revealing our first blooms of the season! It is about 38 F degrees, the wind is raw and most of the ground is covered in snow. But still the dandelion flowers, which…
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JOY in Our Garden: On April 4 flocks of birds checked into our diner for sustenance, while providing us with enJOYable viewing. As snow continued to fall, we were blessed with the visits of cardinals, several types of sparrows, juncos, chickadees, a pair of robins, yellow finches, a very large flock of red finches, and…
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