thankfulness

What if You Woke Up Tomorrow Only to What You Thanked God for Today?

{This image is a gift to you! Please share and use however you want.} As a friend and I closed our phone conversation the other day, she said, “Oh…oh…oh.. I have to ask you something somebody asked me the other day.” She paused for a thoughtful moment and then shot this question through the airwaves. “If you woke up tomorrow to …

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Bite of Bread

Bite of Bread: Don’t forget to Feed Your Spirit

This is a busy week for many of us. We will be busy preparing for Thanksgiving, running around buying turkeys and all the fixings for a bountiful meal. I’ll probably go to the grocery six times before the holiday actually arrives. (I always forget something, get home, and think of another ingredient I need.) Some of us will be cleaning …

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faith, Military life

Celebrating my Soldier on Veterans Day

I was not going to date one of those soldiers much less marry one! That was my firm stance. After accepting a job teaching middle school Language Arts on a Army post in Texas, I refuted the prophecy of the superintendent hiring me. He predicted I would be a military wife in two years. And he was right. A tall, …

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faith, Holy Spirit, Uncategorized, Word Wednesday

Evidence that God Keeps His Word: The Holy Spirit

She spoke of hearing from God with an assurance I did not have. There was something different about her. Confidence. Peace. Wisdom. And I wanted it. Looking back, I had experienced such grace before, but I didn’t recognize that voice as the Holy Spirit of Jesus inside me–I just thought it was me. But I didn’t walk in the power …

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Bite of Bread, worship

Bite of Bread: God Loves You Psalm 103

“Praise the Lord, O my soul; all my inmost being, praise His holy name.  Praise the Lord, O my soul, and don’t forget His benefits–who forgives all your sins and heals all your diseases, who redeems your life from the pit and crowns you with love and compassion,  who satisfies your desires with good things so that your youth is …

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