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I seem to use the delete key on a keyboard just as much as I use the other keys. It’s either due to misspelling words or typing too fast for the computer to register. Or it’s just from not liking the word I just typed or thinking something could be better. Some days I hit…

I learned when I was young that you can tell how old a tree is by counting its rings. I thought that was a neat concept until I tried to count a tree. I’m glad there are people who really do count those rings and tell the age.  But I think the lines on the…

What makes you happy? What can bring a smile to your face at just the very memory of it? As a new year is welcomed, and new year’s resolutions fall by the wayside within a few days, which often happens to me, consider making a resolution to write something every day or at least once…

Looking at a nativity scene, I can’t help but think of the wide variety of people and circumstances God brought together in that one place. Most would have remained strangers if it weren’t for that baby’s miraculous life story. I can’t imagine kings and seeming commoners mingling as readily or bringing gifts that are fit…

The shape of a pine cone lends itself to give off seeds for new life. It’s easy to think that leaving those openings could let in harmful things or leave the shell unprotected. Yet it is from those openings that new things can begin. As the year inches towards a close, where did you find…

I love that even in the midst of early darkness and wintry cold there are reminders of warmth and flowers. These poinsettias are known as winter roses and I think it can be such a gift to still have flowers around in seasons that don’t seem to be hospitable to them, at least if you…

It is so hard to believe, but we are in the last month of 2015 and moving quickly towards 2016. I feel like this year just started, yet when I think about all that has happened, it’s no wonder it’s already the end of the year. Looking at this set of tracks, I can’t help…

It is a season of many colors. Packages will start to be wrapped in bright reds and greens and lights will appear in every nook and cranny of houses and stores. Sometimes there are so many that it obliterates the chance of darkness. My favorite color lights of the season are the bright white lights. They remind…

We all have the same amount of time each day. Twenty-four hours can seem like an eternity when you are anxiously awaiting news or have something important to get done. It can also seem like it’s over in twenty-four minutes, when you are having a lot of fun and truly enjoying what you are doing…

There’s something about waterfalls that I find wonderful. I love the sound of the powerful rush of water. I love how the water is a signal that cold ice can run in a stream over a mountain edge, nourishing the ground as it splashes on the surrounding areas. In a way, waterfalls can symbolize faith falling…
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