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  • Sweet Memories

    Thanksgiving is a special time of the year. It beckons one to slow down and savor the time spent with family and friends. A time to be thankful for all we have experienced in life. All of the memories woven together, like a beautiful rug or a warm sweater, which are held together with love

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  • Trust Me

    Trust in Him at all times, O people; pour out your hearts before Him; God is a refuge for us. Psalm 62:8. The Lord is close and walks with me. When the way is difficult, He holds out His hand to lead me. I take His hand and follow Him, he whispers, in a still,

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  • The Light Shines

    A full moon shining orange with the light from the sun. Sunflowers turned to the sky with a bee buzzing nearby. Clear running streams with smooth rocks glistening as the water flows down the mountain. A dove’s cooing heard from above. The golden plains and yellow wildflower prairies that go on for miles. Endless fields

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  • My Heart

    My heart feels many things: joy, sorrow, happiness, fear, peace, love. It is the center of my being, and beats a rhythm of life. Like the breath of my lungs, the heart works to sustain life, most of the time unnoticed. Yesterday, we received news that our son had gotten into a skateboarding accident. He

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  • From a Distance

    “From a Distance”, a song by Bette Midler has been echoing in my mind lately. Just those three words – “From a Distance”, which describes my life once we made the decision to move out of state several years ago from our extended family. We would see each other every year or every other year,

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  • Time

    I find myself reminiscing to times past as I treasure the moments that seemed so ordinary, but truly were sweet and beautiful. The memories just seem to come to me, bringing a smile to my face and a tear to my eye. To times spent together as a family and as dear friends, I imagine

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  • Memories are a wonderful way to bring a spark of joy in, and experience again the value of a moment. This was my Mother’s Day last weekend when my husband brought out the 2005 family movie DVD that combined a lot of short clips from our video recorder. It was quite the year of travel

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  • Sisters

    I finally went to the movie theater last weekend to see Frozen 2. My daughter wanted to see it with me. I was not looking forward to it, as sequels seem more of the same. But I was pleasantly surprised that Disney did a great job continuing the story and based the movie on Hans

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  • O Christmas Tree

    There is something mesmerizing about a Christmas tree. Year after year, we pull out all our Christmas decorations. We have always had an artificial tree and after being in storage, its branches are flat and need to be straightened and fluffed out. Our tree doesn’t look like much at first as we put it together

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