Category: Following Jesus
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What’s in your Bucket?
In the early years of living on our ten acres our spring would go dry every summer, requiring us to haul water from a neighbor’s well in five-gallon buckets. How I learned to appreciate those buckets! Without them I’d have no water to cook the spaghetti or wash my children’s faces, or even flush the toilets. On hot days…
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Wisdom is a Noisy Lady – Proverbs 1
Originally posted on Kathy Sheldon Davis: I’m away at the Oregon Christian Writers coaching conference this week, so I’m sharing one of my favorite posts from my archives. In the first chapter of Proverbs there’s a list of warnings for those who ignore wise counsel. Wisdom is clearly a voice determined to be heard. “Wisdom cries…
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A High School Reunion and “Can you hear me now?” – Isaiah 46:3-4
Jerry and I attended his 40th high school reunion last weekend. Mine was a year ago, and my intolerance for loud noise has either intensified or the SEHS alumni are a noisier bunch than the CHS crowd. Making a ruckus just goes with having a good time, right? Like a tidal wave, people swept to the opposite side of the warehouse when…
