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Serve
Last fall, my small group of primary caregivers—Shining Lights—adopted a local nursing home as a service project. Each year, the Pastor asks all group leaders to consider providing an act of kindness to the community. Many groups choose to partner with the church’s SERVE projects to clean up around an elementary school or at one…
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Stop Dropping Balls
Five Effective Steps for Planning a Successful Week Monday is a great day to make plans for the week. After a good weekend and a solid, healthy, and restful Sabbath, it is time to wake up to a new week. If you are like me, I can’t juggle a ball to save my life. I…
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Caring for Adult Children
If you, imperfect as you are, know how to lovingly take care of your children and give them what’s best, how much more ready is your heavenly Father to give wonderful gifts to those who ask him?
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Maddy’s Gifts. Love Letter #6.
“She’s Mrs. Dr. Graham,” says my dearest friend, Phoebe. She gets a kick out of the fact that I am wealthy now. She gets a kick out of going shopping with me, too.
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A Proverbial Love Story: Love Letter #5
Not your ordinary love stories…”Bradley missed the wife he married ten years ago, her prayers and kisses on his way to work, and the sugary smell of her skin that welcomed him home. He told her so.”
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Love at a Wedding: Love Letter #1
Dear Reader, A wedding has to be the worst place to meet your true love. But somewhere in between the minister’s prayers, the elated couple standing at the altar reciting their vows and the candlelight flickering all over the sanctuary, a girl’s heart softens. At least mine did on a crisp fall afternoon while witnessing…
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Restful Rules of Labor
Happy Labor Day, Everyone! When our holiday is over, may we return to the righteous work of our hand (a.k.a. the thing God gave us to give to this world). I was thinking this morning that it would be great if we all did what God designed us to do when we were told to…
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Ride or die? Love Letter #3
Some gals get all giddy about being seen in public with their man. They are like female dogs, protecting their territory by way of optics. “You see me with him. Okay. Step off.” Maya did not have such inclinations. She was a rising star at her job, studying for her Masters, with little time for anything…