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“Look for the beauty!”
“I kept thinking this morning about how each of us must look for the beauty in life every day. We should look around us and find the beauty, see the beauty, and live a life full of gratitude and thankfulness for the beauty that is there. For the Bible tells us that the Lord gives…
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“Pick yourself up!”
“I have, and I am coming to the realization that we will fall in life. We will get off course. We may even, at times, lose sight of the plan or vision that was once right before our eyes. Health problems come. Finances become a mess. Death can even come knocking at the door of…
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“Magnify!”
“We all seem to magnify our lives. We magnify the problems, we magnify the circumstances, we magnify the negative, and we magnify the “what ifs” in our lives. Daily, we seem to magnify the worst of things more so than the best of things. Amen. We seem to focus on the bad side of things…
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“The weeds!”
“This morning, as I had gone out to do some yard work, I noticed my neighbor in his tiny little garden space. Even with just a few things planted, every morning he is out there working in that garden pulling weeds, tying up plants, and doing all the things you have to do when you…
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“Waiting on vacation!”
“I think it’s really funny how so many people myself included always seem to say things like, “I can’t wait for vacation.” Amen. “I can’t wait until we go here or there again.” Amen. And what’s even funnier is that so many of us live day by day merely getting by in life. We’re not…
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“Freedom!”
“There comes a time in all of our lives and sometimes from season to season when we will face a crossroads. In that moment, we must decide whether we will hold fast to our freedom or let that freedom go. Amen. And in that moment, we will either choose to remain free, or we will…
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“Godliness with contentment!”
“Wouldn’t it be such a shame to get to the end of our lives and realize that we never truly enjoyed our life, never enjoyed our moments, and never appreciated the gifts that God had given us? Always searching for something new..always rushing ahead, wanting more than what is right before our eyes..always thinking that…
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“1st things First!”
“So again, as death comes knocking on the hearts and lives of names that we know, and the lives of those we’ve only heard of, it once again ushers us into stopping, reflecting, and putting 1st things first in our lives. Amen. For we can so easily get caught up in our everyday lives that…
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“God’s safety!”
“As I sit here this morning under one of the shelters at Tanglewood Park, looking up at the roof, it reminds me every time of Noah’s Ark. Amen. The design of it looks like the inside of a huge boat, if you will. The archway and the craftsmanship are truly beautiful. Every time I am…
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“Yes & Amen!”
“This morning as I opened up my Bible, the words that flew off the page to me were found in Jeremiah, when the Lord says, “I will restore health unto thee, and I will heal thy wounds.” (Jeremiah 30:17). Amen. And I thought, yes Lord, all of Your promises are yes and amen. For it…
