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   With the coming of each new year comes the notion that we have a new beginning.  Of course, this quite true, but not only with the coming of a new year.  God’s Word tells us in Lamentations 3:22-24, “It is of the Lord’s mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not. …

     Aren’t you tired of all political ads on TV and the political phone calls and fliers in the mail?  I sure am and we still have months to go before the 2012 Presidential election.  I wonder what would happen if we put each candidate on a strict budget?  I wonder what would happen if…

I often drive by this junk yard and wonder what has happened to put each item in the heap.   I guess I am just naturally curious;or maybe I just have an over active imagination.  I hear so many people say they feel like a piece of junk or that God must have messed up when He…

The new year always offers us a chance to erase the errors of the past and have a new beginning.  Thank God!!  We all make so many mistakes and often fail ourselves and others.  Every January we get a fresh start, a clean slate, a blank page.  Many people make New Year’s resolutions at this…

This IS NOT a normal Christmas in northern Ohio!!!   Where is the snow? Where is the ice?  Where are the big gray clouds?  Where are the freezing temperatures?  It was 43 degrees when I took these pictures.  The sun was shinning and even some of the birds were singing.  What’s up with that? It has…

Being homeless is never an enjoyable experience, but it can be especially tramatic over the holidays.  Families with children seem to suffer the most.  The little ones are afraid that Santa won’t find them at the homeless shelter.  The older children and adults get depressed because they know they have no money to buy gifts. Our…

Last week they concluded the 23rd year of Survivor.  Many times this season one would find the cast members were  having a prayer meeting, instead of playing a game.  Even Jeff Probst mentioned that he had never seen a year with so much prayer and talk of honesty and faith.  They prayed for everything from…

We hear about a few ‘secret Santa’s” every Christmas, but this year in northern Ohio, we have had a bunch of them.  They just want to give someone merry Christmas without creating a fu over themselves. We have had  a news report about several “secrets Santa’s ‘ at work.  One Santa has been going around placing…

I always thought “The twelve Days of Christmas” was just a goofy song to sing at Christmas time.  What in the world do leaping lords and swimming swans have to do with Christmas?  Then someone sent me this explanation for the song. The Catholics in England were not permitted to practice their faith openly from…

     Do you ever get distracted?  I sure do.  When ever I have something important to do for the the Lord, there are twenty other things demanding my attention.  Our society moves so quickly, that before we know it we can be caught up into a totally different project.  I’m not saying that many of…
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