Past The end of the year tends to be a time of reflection, thinking back on the past twelve months and evaluating the good and the bad. After watching several Christmas movies this past month, the classic film based on Charles Dickens’ book, “A Christmas Carol”, comes to mind. The story includes three ghosts who…
Illumination The Christmas season is my favorite time of the year for many reasons, one of them being the lights! Over the weekend, my boys and I went to see a Christmas lights display, and it was magical, as always. Although we experience the longest period of darkness this time of the year, it is…
Give Thanks While we should be grateful throughout the year, the season of Thanksgiving is the time when I really stop and reflect on all that I am thankful for. I had a wonderful Friendsgiving last weekend with my people, and today I spent Thanksgiving surrounded by close family. I cherish these days. Things in…
Embrace the Change Change…it’s an inevitable part of life. Sometimes change is good and sometimes not. Sometimes change is expected, and sometimes it comes out of nowhere and seems to knock your world off its axis. Time is ever changing. Seasons change. The weather changes (sometimes multiple times a day if you’re in Missouri). People…
Quench Your Thirst Water is the essence of life as it is necessary to sustain all forms of life. An adult human body is made up of 50 to 60 percent water. Additionally, some organs have an even higher estimated water content, such as the kidneys (79% water) and lungs (83% water). Water is important…
Fitness From the Word I was asked to lead the devotional for our women’s group at church a couple of weeks ago. The topic was Faith Meets Fitness: Honoring God and Living a Fit Life. This was right up my alley, as fitness for the Lord has been a major focus for me this year.…
An Adventurous Spirit I saw a social media clip the other day about a married couple on vacation. It read something along the lines of, “When a I want to relax all day because I’m on vacation marries an adventurer”. It showed the couple hiking up a natural looking stairway at some outdoor tourist spot.…
41 My kids are amazing. While each differ in their temperament, likes, aversions, activities, and accomplishments, at their individual cores is a loving and compassionate heart. I’ve been worried about them with the changes happening in our family dynamic, but I am so proud of each of them for being considerate, adaptable, and resilient through…
Disciplined Discipline is an important concept in all aspects of life. Discipline is defined by the online Cambridge Dictionary as, “training that makes people more willing to obey or more able to control themselves, often in the form of rules, and punishments if these are broken, or the behavior produced by this training.” Discipline is…
O Beautiful O beautiful for halcyon skies, For amber waves of grain, For purple mountain majesties Above the enameled plain! America, America! God shed His grace on thee, Till souls wax fair as earth and air And music-hearted sea! –“America” an original poem published in 1893 by Katherine Lee Bates, later revised and added to…
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