Thank you, God, for chocolate!

Well, I’ve been humbled after all my going on about how hard I find it to praise God for things. My thinking has been that when I’m listing all the good stuff I like that God has done for me, it’s like I’m not only turning Him into a big genie, but it feels manipulative, like if I tell Him [...]

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Bread…..+ ham and cheese and

“Are we satisfied with only the Bread?”
The name of this post is a translation of another post which touched me deeply yesterday. The photo is from the same post. My Portuguese is a little rusty, but I was able to follow most of the post and the comments, and I was deeply impacted.
That is one [...]

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Prayer for the World–The U.S. and Food

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1. Father, forgive me for taking food too lightly and forgetting that every bite
(a) is a gift from you, and
(b) is a gift which not everyone in the world or even in my town has received today.
I pray for young children in poor parts of the United States, who during this summer [...]

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Same sadness, different kingdom

He has delivered us from the domain of darkness and transferred us to the kingdom of his beloved Son, in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins.
I quietly cried my way through the service at the church I was visiting this morning. I’m glad no one came up and asked what was wrong (maybe [...]

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Everything I learned about blogging, I learned from Lingamish

This is really not a post, but a comment to Lingamish’s post on the end of the world.
I’m very aware that I have entered the world of blogging as one coming in from the technological Stone Age. However, thanks to Lingamish, I’m using (in the most basic sense of the world) Windows Live Writer to [...]

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Prayers from Other Times and Places

Jay and Lingamish made recommendations for prayer books on my post, “What is the Opposite of Speaking in Tongues?”.  Jay’s suggestion was the Valley of Vision and Lingamish’s was the  Book of Common Prayer. I searched online, read and prayed through some of the prayers in both books. You can listen online to a short selection from the Valley [...]

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I need a context for this phrase

Many years ago a friend told me she was going to spend the weekend “halfway between Lake Okeechobee and Yeehaw Junction“. She was participating in a horse event there, and that seems to be Florida horse and cattle country. But since I know very little about horses, that significance was lost to me.
The phrase, however, has stuck with me [...]

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What is the Opposite of Speaking in Tongues?

Why is it that I have such a hard time putting prayers into words? I wonder about this a lot, and wrestled with it in one of my first posts, inspired by Lingamish’s  Prayer for the World series and my kids’ spontaneous sentence prayers in response to that post. Each week we have followed this [...]

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Which Language Would You Learn?

Just for fun, if you could learn to speak any language or dialect in the world, which one would you choose?
The current top of my list would be Cockney Rhyming slang.
Apparently, it isn’t really a language and it isn’t really a dialect. Whatever it is, I find it absolutely fascinating. It seems like code speaking [...]

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Introverts in Literature

For some time I have been wanting to compile a list of literature about introverts–both nonfiction that talks about introversion (or various aspects and shades of it) and fiction works with introverted characters presented in a positive way. I’m an ISFJ. I like literature that is realistic (well, maybe that is not totally accurate, now [...]

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