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Keeping Your Love Alive

At my church on Wednesday nights we havedinner corporately before the men, women and children split off into theirrespective groups for study. Sometimes we sort of segregate during the meals a…
The Blessing of Trials

I think a lot of times when we are going throughhard times we have the tendency to blame the devil and miss the fact thatsometimes God brings trials into our life to teach us and mature us in ourfaith. I’m not say…
There were so many things I wanted to add to the group discussion last night in women’s Bible study, but I guessI don’t talk very loud, and for the most part cannot be heard over other peopletalking. Usually by …
faith steps

Last night was really wonderful, in it's own way. Although it may not seem very wonderful to you when I tell you, I still think it was. Money has been super tight for us lately. We've had a couple extra small things com…
Dust Bunnies

There is an overwhelming amount of dust in my house every day. I have been both sweeping and carefully dusting nearly every day so as not to just move it all around, but to really pick it up. And yet every morning, I wa…
Lilies and Birds

I'm getting a little nervous, because I'm almost out of coffee. Actually, we're almost out of everything. It is so easy to be distracted by what I don't have, and become blind to the hundreds of blessings …
Marvelous Grace

I watched a video lesson recently in which the speaker wassharing about a loved one who is not following Christ. It immediately broughtup some serious pain for me, as over the years several of my loved ones havema…
Tstorms all weekend...

I am getting pretty tired of thunderstorms.
He's baaaack...

Well, as my good friend pointed out, "Harpo" is "Oprah" spelled backwards...which I was really upset to realize, because I like the name Harpo, and anyway, I was thinking more like Harpo Marx or something when I decided…
"Look at me, look at me!"

Okay, so I’ve been wrestling with this for a few days, andthe Lord has been stirring a lot questions in my own heart and causing me to really weigh my motives. I hope this encourages you to do the same... The…
Pride is overtaking my face!!

Pride is blinding.And tricky, too. We oftendo not see it in ourselves, yet we can recognize it immediately in someoneelse. It makes me think about the parable Jesus used about trying to pry outthe fleck in our ne…
Yesterday evening I went for a walk. Harpo followed me the whole way, until about a quarter mile back to my house, he ran into someone's yard toward the lake. He hasn't been back yet, perhaps he's been house hoping for …
We call him Harpo...

He is still on my porch...and he cries when I go inside. I don't have anything to feed him and I don't know if I should anyway. I guess we'll go to the local vet tonight and see if they know whose he is or what we s…
Today on my walk, a dog followed me home. A big, beautiful chocolate Lab. He has to belong to someone, he has a collar. I've seen his footprints in the mud nearby but this is the first time I have seen him. He's been si…
I had a very restless night last night. In Texas, when it rains, it usually thunderstorms. After living in Washington for a couple of years, I kind of got unused to thunder and lightening. There have been many ni…
I really like coffee a lot. I just think it is really important that you know that.
Is a "Worship Service" Biblical?

Mark 7:6-8 - He (Jesus) replied, "Isaiah was right when he prophesied about you hypocrites; as it is written: 'These people honor me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me. They worship me in vain; their t…
New look

It is taking forever for me to figure out the themes and the home page layouts for Revelife and Xanga. How does this look?
Out of the heart, the mouth speaks...

Proverbs10: 19 - When words are many, sin is not absent, but he who holds his tongue is wise. RecentlyI witnessed a group of believers disputing, and there were some hurtful thingssaid. It …
The downfalls of beautiful east Texas

I am glad we didn't get any mail today. If we had, our mail lady might have died. Today when I checked th box, I stumbled upon the very first black widow spider I have ever seen. I used to live in this area a few year…
Jesus gave us a laptop! I feel very blessed. This might mean you'll see more of me around here. I am going to continue writing, now with the advantage of the internet anytime I need to research something. I'm pret…