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Together Like Peanut Butter and Jelly
Together Like Peanut Butter and Jelly

Prayer and Trust go together like: Salt and Pepper. Hammer and Nail. Peanut Butter and Jelly. Sock and Shoe. Pen and Paper. Bread and Butter. Knife and Fork. Proverbs 3:5 is one of my favorite verses:  "Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own...

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Wanna See Things Change?  Pray.
Wanna See Things Change? Pray.

Prayer. Is it a request that we send up to God when we need His help? Is it a quick thank you for an answered one? Is it a duty before we take communion or a bite of lunch? I will be doing a series of devotions on prayer over the next couple of weeks and as I learn...

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Get Out Of My Way!
Get Out Of My Way!

Bumper to bumper traffic peppered with yellow taxi cabs.  Horns blaring.  People shoulder to shoulder scurrying through crosswalks. That's the scene during morning and evening rush hours in NYC. My husband, daughter and I just returned from a vacation in New York...

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Where Have You Been?
Where Have You Been?

Where have you been? It's a phrase we ask when we feel like someone has been gone too long.  Maybe we are looking for them and can't find them.  Or maybe it's just become a normal thing that you see them and then all of a sudden you notice they aren't there. My...

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Waiting Patiently?  Really?
Waiting Patiently? Really?

Waiting patiently.  I don't even think those two words go together!  What's it called?  An oxymoron?  A phrase that combines two words having contradictory meaning. Waiting.......... like: "The buzzer will light up when your table is ready." "Take a number." "The next...

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Prayer Power!
Prayer Power!

There is a lot of hurt in this world today. Hurt in our hearts. Hurt in our families. Hurt with our friends. Hurt in our schools. Hurt in our workplaces. Hurt in our churches. Hurt in our community. Hurt in our state. Hurt in our country. Hurt in our world. But there...

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Journeying with Jesus…and a T-Bird!
Journeying with Jesus…and a T-Bird!

Double yellow line transitioned to passing zone. Revved up engine. A gust of wind and an excited squeal from a group of teens. The setting for my husband and I getting passed on the highway for going too slow in our Thunderbird convertible.   Yes, we are officially...

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A Practical Blog Idea for A Fifteen-Minute Miracle!
A Practical Blog Idea for A Fifteen-Minute Miracle!

Wouldn't it be great to have 15 extra minutes in a day?  Okay, okay.  You may be thinking:  "Fifteen extra minutes?  If I am getting a wish granted for extra time, I want hours!" But if we had hours we would want more hours and then we would be even more exhausted...

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The App Close To Our Heart.
The App Close To Our Heart.

Ding. Ring. Buzz. Melody. Pop-up notice. Man, when that cell phone notifies us of anything, we are all over it.  We do NOT want to miss a call, a text, an email, a "like" or a comment. We now wear devices on our wrists to make sure we don't miss any of the...

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