Correct with Respect

By Beth | June 13, 2014

  For out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks. Matthew 12:34b I recently became a customer of an organization that requires my regularly going to someone’s house to pick up my purchases. Twice I have received from the local representative an angry email regarding pick up protocol. I was certainly relieved when…

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Plant Thick and Feed

By Beth | June 10, 2014

I will delight in your statutes; I will not forget your word.   Psalm 119:16 When we lived in the city of Reading we had a neighbor who was a horticulturalist by profession. He was one of those great neighbors who would  do anything for you and he felt really sorry for me and my…

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Looking Under the Covers

By Beth | June 6, 2014

  I often pray for God to give me good illustrations and applications for something I am writing. Illustrations help to get a point across that may be difficult to grasp. Yesterday, He gave me an illustration to increase my own understanding. There is a couple in our church who are actively working with a…

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Our Inconvenient Kids

By Beth | June 3, 2014

  Kids can be a real inconvenience. When all we want to do is get a job done When we want to read in peace so we can grasp whatever we’re trying to understand When we want to get in and out of a store at lightning speed When we want to get from the…

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An Act of God

By Beth | May 30, 2014

  Plead with the LORD, for there has been enough of God’s thunder and hail.  Exodus 9:28a   Twelve minutes of hail. This was no ordinary hail, golf balls and rocks coming from the heavens with a force I had never seen before. My car was totaled but it was in good shape compared to many…

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Kids and Kindness

By Beth | May 27, 2014

 For the whole law is fulfilled in one word: “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.” Galatians 5:14   At a recent picnic we attended we met a family who were baffled by their neighbors “kids”. These “kids” are in their twenties. The two of them were home alone when there was a knock on…

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