Your Place of Encouragement
For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are My ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts. Isaiah 55:9. God’s ways are well beyond what we see right now. I believe that if we: “Drive out the scoffer, strife will go out, and quarreling and abuse will cease.” Proverbs […]
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My sheep recognize my voice. I know them, and they follow me. I give them real and eternal life. They are protected from the Destroyer for good. No one can steal them from out of my hand. The Father who put them under my care is so much greater than the Destroyer and Thief.” John […]
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“Let peace continue as long as there is a moon.” Psalm 72:7b (ICB). Statues toppling over, being smashed, and drug to watery graves…There will be none left at this rate, and the surface reasons for this unruly behavior are: 1) The people represented in these statues are flawed human beings. 2) Today’s narrative: “we are […]
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I just heard this today and had to share with you all ♥ Lord God, I have never spoken to you, But now I want to say, “How do you do?” You see God, they told me you didn’t exist, and like a fool I believed all this. Last night from a shell hole […]
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“I have come as light into the world. I came so that whoever believes in Me would not stay in darkness.” John 12:46 (ICB). Darkness encroaches on all sides, and living through a world wide pandemic is like the whole world being submerged in further gloom. Not only that, but for those that care about […]
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So our hope is in the Lord. He is our help, our shield to protect us. We rejoice in him. We trust his holy name. Psalm 33:20-21 Just knowing that God is our hope and our help; gives us reason to rejoice. He is our protection, truly we can trust in His holy name. I […]
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As I think about those who have preceded me in life, I wonder. They are shadows or transparent beings who move in and out, and I wonder. Characteristics come to mind and these beings appear – these loved ones, and I wonder. How can it be that what once seemed forever here is physically gone […]
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The answer? Time! Enjoy your children, grandchildren, and loved ones while you can. They are precious gifts from God Himself. May this day find you with a heart of reconciliation, love, and restoration for those around you. Love is the greatest commandment in the Bible: “Teacher, which is the greatest commandment in the Law?” Jesus […]
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Ken (my husband) started his own blog recently, and I really enjoyed this post, and just had to share: I was taught as a boy to open the car door for my mother. At first I thought that an odd work for me to have on my to-do list because the handle of the door […]
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In this time of introspection…
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