Wisdom and foresight come from experience. I’m the type of person that tries to learn from an experience one time and deal with it better the next. I have been through my share of power outages and usually when the bad storms hit I don’t want to leave my house. It doesn’t matter how old […]
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I found myself sitting in the grass on a hill overlooking a sea of different shades of green throughout the fields and trees. I was watching the sunlight change through the leaves as the wind softly blew them back and forth changing the pattern of the shadows on the ground. On the outside it was
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I was writing my next post about preparing for power outages, as I was writing about heat sources and my parents’ old wood stove the Holy Spirit started to speak. I remember the smell of the smoke as dad would light a fire in the old wood stove. Once the flames grew, the sound of
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I watched the flames flicker in the gas fireplace as I warmed my cold sore hands above the vent. I closed my eyes and I started to imagine the heat melting away the pain in my joints only leaving the soothing sensation of relief from old injuries I have acquired through the years. I began
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Dinner time rolls around and its time to start asking everyone what they want to eat. You get the same requests every night for, “whatever you want”, “I don’t care”, “eww no!”, “I don’t want that”, or “I don’t know”. By the time you decide on something it’s later and you don’t feel like cooking
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For the past several days I have watched my husband David work on our front porch. We built the porch last year and we want to add a roof before the winter weather brings snow. I sat in my folding chair and sipped my coffee as I watched how meticulous David was being with every
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“He gives food to every living thing. His faithful love endures forever. Give thanks to the God of heaven. His faithful love endures forever.”Psalms 136:25-26 NLT The smell of bacon filled the air as it began frying in the pan sizzling on the stove. One by one I cracked large white eggs into a bowl
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The wind was howling through the trees as white fluffy clouds disappeared behind them and dark gray clouds took their place. A storm was getting ready to blow through the valley and a couple of eagles soared above gliding on the wind. It looked as if they were dancing gracefully in the heavens. I looked
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I started to put Bj’s collar on him when he began to jump in the air with excitement. He knew what was happening! Barking his beagle bugle horn he alerted the entire valley it was time to chase the ball! I couldn’t open the gate fast enough for him to leap down the steps and
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One of my life goals has been to create a life I don’t need a vacation from. That’s everyone’s dream right? I feel like with time and patience David and I have turned this idea into a reality and not only do we continue to enjoy each other’s company but we enjoy being at home.
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