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Drawn and thin, the teenage hospital patient sat for hours in the waiting room communicating with his friends through the Internet.  They sent messages and talked.  He laughed and typed.  Looking at pictures sent to him, he would respond and receive even more messages.  He was using a social media that I’d not seen before called…

The first Thursday of each year was declared as the National Day of Prayer in 1988.  Harry Truman signed legislation in 1952 to establish an annual day of prayer but it was a different day each year until the 1988 law as passed.  Of course, throughout the history of the US, from time to time, days…

If you don’t think every day is a great and blessed day, try living without one.

I was a bit shocked to read in Ecclesiastes that Solomon said that there will always be books and reading too much will confuse you.  God understands that we will never learn everything about any subject.  When I was a young woman, I learned the importance of studying and reading the Bible.  I thought that…

I was raised in a denomination that is currently being accused of worshiping the Bible.  Understand, I don’t remember ever being told that the scriptures were co-equal in importance with the Godhead.  What I do remember is a strong emphasis on daily Bible reading.  In my mind, there was an equal emphasis with studying and…

Are you like me?  My email inbox, Facebook Wall and even today’s Twitter Timeline are full of messages telling me about “The Perfect Gift for Mom.” Frankly, I hope my children read and use a couple of  these suggestions. Even BeliefNet is promoting mother-friendly suggestions.  There is an aromatherapy kit which appears to be formulated specifically for…

President Barack Obama announced to the nation in somber tones, “Justice has been done.”  Sitting in a house located in Abbottabad, Pakistan which is a suburb of Islamabad, the planner of multiple terrorist attacks, Usama Bin Laden, was attacked by a small cadre of American forces.   A fire fight broke out and Bin Laden…

The Changes of the Seasons by Shelly Demeree We look at the meaning of spring. We know that spring can mean that change is here. Spring means we will have fun in the sun. We being to feel things around us with fresh hope. That is good. Good to be with our family. Good to…

Is there a way to insure that God is working in our lives and in the lives of those people we care about?  Perhaps it is the common and mundane that accents the Christian life more than any other attribute. When I was in my early 20’s, God suddenly started moving in the youth group…

Living on the Space Coast for more than 40 years, we’ve seen the ups and downs of a community with one major industry–space.  My husband is a retired Aerospace Technologist who worked for NASA.  He was a design engineer whose design work spanned from the early days of the Saturn rockets to design and maintenance…
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