When our father passed away, my sister and I went to choose a monument to be placed in our family plot. When the drawing was put in front of us, we knew that Dad had begun the designing of his own gravestone long before his death as our eyes fell ...
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Our senses are a gift from God. Through sight, smell, taste, touch, and sound we experience life. Through our sense of smell, we remember. Rich tulips remind me of springtime when I was a little girl, the days warming in invitation to come out and play. The heavy scent of ...
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Remember opening a new can of Play-Doh? The first thing most of us remember about the childhood delight is its smell. It was a can of colorful fun, a rite of passage for our little hands–and noses! The soft, unusually-scented, brightly colored doughs were fun to form into shapes using ...
Read More »A Racist’s Testimony to God’s Transforming Power
Proverbs 16: 6 Through love and faithfulness sin is atoned for; through the fear of the LORD a man avoids evil. I say in anger: You will not truly feel the pain of the despised until you feel your own pain of being despised. But Abba Father God gently ...
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Bessie Pease Gutmann’s illustrations graced the covers of many of America’s early magazines such as McCall’s and Woman’s Home Companion. Bessie painted lovely images of babies and young children, capturing their innocence and purity in soft shades of blue and pink. Her own dear children, Alice, Lucille, and John, were ...
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