The fruit of the Spirit word for this week is prayer from Colossians 4:2. So we should devote ourselves to prayer this week.I suggest that in thinking about that and doing it we focus of special people and special things in their lives we want to pray about. And in our own life.Sometimes it's easy [...]
Peace is our "Fruits of the Spirit" word are us all to work on together this week, and I sure need it. It's amazing how the words that I choose randomly each Sunday seem to be tailored specifically for me and what all is going on in my life. Our lives.For instance - our major [...]
Authentic religion is not a theology
test. It's a love test.
Oliver Thomas Here's yet another good quote I got the other morning in my daily devotional email I get from "This Day's Thought." I really like this one a lot and agree with it wholeheartedly. Don't you? Or do you? If you don't, go back [...]
Hi! Sorry to be so late, but our fruits of the Spirit word to work on this week is "quiet." Be quiet, or to lead a quiet life.This one you would think would be easy to do, but I'm finding of late, what with all of the stresses of trying to finish our new house [...]
One is given strength to bear what
happens to one, but not the 100 and 1 different things that might happen.
C. S. Lewis C. S. Lewis is one of my most favorite authors. ("Most" favorite, Dee Ann? What's with this "most" favorite?!) Anyway . . . I really like this quote and would like to comment on it [...]
Hi, friends. Sorry I've been absent the past two or three days. We're getting close to moving into our house (two more weeks!) and things have gotten really busy, as you might expect. But I wanted to take the time to give you our fruits of the Spirit word for this week for us all [...]
Ironing is an humble task. I learned to iron from my mother.I used to do it all of the time. I ironed at least once a week for a long time starching and pressing Tom's white dress shirts for work because he wears a suit every day to work most of the time. He needs [...]
This week's fruits of the Spirit word for us all to work on is sing (and make music in your heart) - Eph. 5:19. This will be an easy one for me in most ways because I love to sing. Although I don't have the best voice in the world and have always wanted a [...]
It just struck me this morning how appropriate my Sunday post was for this week that has been. Do you remember reading Sunday's post (here)? It is where I wrote about our "word/phrase for the week" and this week's phrase was to "give thanks in all circumstances."
If you have been reading [...]
David thinks his kidney stone passed on into his bladder during the night, night befoe last when he was in such pain and awake with it all night. Yesterday morning he was so sick that he finally threw up and felt just horrid. But yesterday afternoon he was able to get a long nap and [...]