Joy in the Morning
By Jacqueline Dodson
“Gone,” she whispered into the stuffed bear’s ear. “How can he be gone?” she asked her fuzzy companion. The bear, like her, didn’t have an answer.
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One Heartbeat at a Time
January 31, 2024 by admin
Filed under Family Focus
By Khristy Hullett
My kids and I recently filmed a video for church for Mother's Day set to the Steven Curtis Chapman song “One Heartbeat at a Time.” I've seen the video in part; they're still polishing the final product. What I have seen assures me that this will be an amazing keepsake—a moment frozen in time of my children at 7, 4, and 2. I adore them and am so delighted to see them growing up to be special little people. I've found it hard to let them go, and I'm still adjusting to the great strides they're making in standing on their own two feet, but today that's not what struck me as I drove down the road in my Mom Mobile (minivan).
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Cast Your Cares on the Lord Not the Refrigerator
January 28, 2024 by admin
Filed under Health and Fitness
By Julie Morris
I could tell from my doctor’s worried look as he removed the blood pressure cuff from my arm that he was preparing to say the words I dreaded. I didn’t mind if he said that my blood pressure was high. What I minded was the lecture that was sure to follow. The one that always started and ended with the same impossible command: “You have got to lose weight!”
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Granddads Story
By Ed Crumley
It’s a long story. A hundred year’s worth. He celebrated his 100th birthday on June 24, 2008, so he actually had six more months to go, passing away on January 28, 2009.
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All In
By Lisa Bell
Insignificant. She looked at the two small coins in her hand and sighed deeply.
The Scribes milled about in the area. Their robes swelled like the sail of a ship in the breeze puffing out to match their chests. Some of these men spent much time at her humble home devouring any meager offering of food. Many of them approached the trumpet shaped treasury boxes and flung vast sums into the opening. Smugness etched their faces as they watched others contribute smaller amounts. One raised his eyebrows as a man cast in his offering.
