This morning’s darkness is no match for the car’s headlights going down the street. My neighbor’s solar lights, as well as my own, push back the night to define boundaries of sidewalk and garden. Well-marked paths, these; you can’t miss them. I suppose many things must be taken into account when planners are mapping out […]
Jan 12, 2014
Etta Bend Devotional
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Etta Bend Daily Devotional January 12–“What time I am afraid, I will trust in thee” (Psalm 56:3). Nighttime at Etta Bend in the early 1900s was dark indeed. If the moon didn’t happen to be shining, the only brightness was the light of coal oil lamps glowing in the farmhouse windows. Sometimes trouble is like […]
Jan 11, 2014
Shining Moments
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I don’t get much in my mailbox any more–I don’t mean my virtual mailbox, but the actual metal box where the mailman stops almost every day. Oh, lots of advertisements find their way there and bills, and flyers, but very few letters. Times have changed! But yesterday, I got the neatest, fat, colorful envelope from […]
Jan 10, 2014
Commemoration of a Happy Event
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For the first time in a long time, the temperature was above freezing when I woke up. The ground is wet but the snow–where did it go? Will we have more? My snowman indicator has not changed positions on the mantel and he keeps his secretive smile. Does he know something I don’t? Yesterday the […]
Jan 9, 2014
A Covenant of Salt
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Yesterday, as I was reading Scripture, I came upon II Chronicles 13:5. In that verse is an interesting term, “covenant of salt.” I’m sure I’ve read those words before but yesterday, I took particular notice. Sometimes that happens. A verse that I must have read several times suddenly stands out. I checked out the significance […]
Jan 8, 2014
Etta Bend Devotional
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One of the writing projects I’m working on is a daily devotional book with the Etta Bend of the early twentieth century as the background. The format is to have a Bible verse at the top, short sketch in the middle, and a take away Thought at the bottom. Here is a sample: January 8–“I […]
