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Hello beloved Bloggers and welcome to the newer ladies that have been joining us,

I'm sure you've noticed the little change I made with the formatting of the blogs, so I have to admit that as a visual, artistic type person, I couldn't take the little tiny pictures any longer!

You now have the freedom to post bigger pictures, but please for the sake of us all, keep your pictures to a size that is comfortable to look at and does not take the entire page. We will have ...

“You are the light of the world. A town built on a hill cannot be hidden. Neither do people light a lamp and put it under a bowl. Instead they put it on its stand, and it gives light to everyone in the house. In the same way, let your light shine before others, that they may see your good deeds and glorify your Father in heaven.” (Matthew 5:14-16)

So much of life in our western culture is focused on success. We are constantly trying to define what ...

I had a dream today that I was free; no longer held captive by the ropes that bind me to who I was. I had a dream that the walls built around my heart were gone and that love would flow again from within its deepest cracks and crevices. I had a dream that words could flow freely without fear, without shame, without regret. I had this dream today…

As the sun came up this morning, the words and love were deeply locked away, seemingly not to come out this day and that little girl in ...

Sometimes as I sit and pray the words flow out and my prayer goes on and on. It is kind of a funny thing when you think about it, since God already knows my whole life from its beginning to end, and knows my heart so completely that not one single word of prayer is required for Him to know its deepest desires. But He calls us to pray, and many times it is I who need my excessive outpouring of words to lay my heart before Him, so that I can see what is hidden deep down within. Other times though, ...

Then he called the crowd to him along with his disciples and said,
"If anyone would come after me, he must deny himself and take up his cross and follow me.
For whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for me and for the gospel will save it." Mark 8:34-35

These words are such familiar words to many of us, so familiar, even too familiar that they can begin to lose their meaning, and their power.

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