Category: Inspirational
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Catching Up
Image from Pinterest It’s the middle of summer already. Summer is one of my favorite seasons. I love the warm, even hot, weather and the long days. I’m usually outside quite a bit during the summer, enjoying the sunshine. This summer has been a little different, though. My last post was in early June, and…
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Clothe Yourselves with Kindness
Clothe yourselves with compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness, and patience….And over all these virtues put on love, which binds them all together in perfect unity. COLOSSIANS 3:12, 14 NIV (New International Version) Image from French Press Mornings
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Finding Strength in Beauty
“In some way I feel you here with me as I write, and I hope you feel that I’m there with you as you read, just your friend, across the table at a coffee shop, swapping stories and sharing hope,” Annie F. Downs writes at the beginning of her new book, Looking for Lovely. And as I…
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Trust the Path
TRUST THE PATH, I heard God say. And I knew He didn’t just mean the “medium” difficulty one at Radnor Lake. He meant the questions in my heart, the things I wonder about, the worries that I am going to miss Him. I don’t have to know where things are going; I don’t have to…
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Be Glad
How encouraging is that? It brightened my day when I saw this over at a blog called French Press Mornings. I thought many of you would find it encouraging, too! You can download this message free there if you want to have a copy for yourself. One of my designer friends told me about this site–I love the inspirational…
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The First Step
Faith is taking the first step, even when you don’t see the whole staircase. —MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. I heard this quote over the radio one morning as my alarm went off. It’s something we all can relate to–being in a place where God is leading you to step out in faith. It may be a small step or a…
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Surrender
I marked a page in a book I had read several years ago and came across it the other day. A Prayer That Moves Heaven offers comfort and hope for those going through difficult times, and we all have gone through or are going through difficult, challenging times, right? As I reread the page I had marked, I…
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It Is Well
If you’ve never heard the story of Horatio Gates Spafford, it’s quite inspiring. Born in 1828, he became a well-known lawyer in Chicago in the 1860’s. Spafford and his wife Anna married in 1861, were active in their church, and began a family. In addition to his position as senior partner in a successful law firm, Spafford also decided to…
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Your Unique Blueprint
God made you exactly as you are. He wired you and gave you the temperament and the experience and the background that you have because He wanted someone just like you in this world right now. Today. In this generation. Memorize all twenty-four verses of Psalm 139 if you have to, but don’t lose sight…
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Unbroken
I just finished reading Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand. A friend had given me the book a few years ago, and I had it in my stack of books to read. I never have as much time to read as I’d like, so the book sat in my stack for awhile. When I heard the story…
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Spring WILL Come!
Yesterday snowflakes were softly falling and it was looking more like a December winter wonderland outside than an almost-spring day, especially considering I’m in the south. My friends and I are so ready for spring to come–it’s just 3 weeks away, but when you see all the snow you wonder if it will ever get here. And…
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Every Promise
This quote caught my eye because I had read these verses a few days ago: “Then the Lord did exactly what He had promised…It all happened at the time God had said it would.” GENESIS 21:1-2 NLT (New Living Translation) I remembered reading these verses because I had underlined them and thought about how God is so faithful—He doesn’t make…
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