Category: Bible Reading
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How I Won My First Writing Contest – Luke 13:18-19
I won my first writing contest at the age of eight. Here’s how I did it. In 1963 my second grade teacher prodded her students toward entering the Register Guard’s “Why I Like Christmas” contest. I couldn’t resist. Listening carefully to the contest rules about originality and not letting an adult help too much, I asked…
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What is a Blog? and Here’s my Treadmill Desk – 1 John 2:1
I started my blog in 2007 because I wanted to be more public about who I am, and because there are those who want to hear what I have to say. It could be scary to think my writing might be on display for people around the world to scrutinize, but to me the effort is worthwhile. What is a…
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A Tale of Two Legendary Women- Proverbs 31:28-31
We have only one picture of Chester and Ina Sheldon’s family, and it doesn’t tell us much about my grandparents’ struggle to keep everything together. She worked so hard Grandma got up early to trudge through town to milk the cow pastured nearby. Then she delivered the bucket to one of her daughters at the front door so grandma could get to the fruit…
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Taking the Kids on an Anniversary Trip – Deuteronomy 5:16
Does it seem odd to you that a couple would want their children along on their anniversary trip? Don’t most parents yearn to get away and escape their families? Not mine. My folks celebrated their sixty-first wedding anniversary last week, and they’re used to spending huge blocks of time alone together – one of the perks of being their age.…
