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Maria's blog: August 2012
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Thursday, August 02, 2012. My heart is heavy today. This week is the Chik-Fil-A controversy. The COO, Dan Cathy stated:. I think we are inviting God's judgment on our nation when we shake our fist at Him and say, 'We know better than you as to what constitutes a marriage,'" Cathy said. "I pray God's mercy on our generation that has such a prideful, arrogant attitude to think that we have the audacity to define what marriage is about.". And certainly I'm not fearing the Lord at that moment because I'm bel...
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Leave It Behind > Brian Bailey: The 10 Reasons I'm Voting for Barack Obama
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Leave It Behind Brian Bailey. Change versus more of the same. Laquo; One step closer to knowing. How hard can it be? October 20, 2008. The 10 Reasons I'm Voting for Barack Obama. Note: this is the follow-up to an earlier post. You may want to start here. 10 The historical moment. 9 What it says about America. 8 The Republican Party. I don't think any Republican could have won this year and it is a testament to McCain's broad appeal that the race is as close as it is. All of us like to identify with our l...
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Maria's blog: How can I not be moved?
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Wednesday, January 20, 2010. How can I not be moved? Haiti has just experienced another quake, although some reports say it was an aftershock, it still measured 6.0. Just a week after the first earthquake, I can only imagine the fear people felt as they were rocked yet again. Experiencing minor aftershocks is one thing, reliving the terror they experienced 8 days ago is another. I don't have anything that can compare. So I can't know or judge what is going on. I've not been given that role. Simple templa...
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Maria's blog: August 2009
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Monday, August 24, 2009. With that in mind, I think I'll let this blog morph into what it will. Idealistically it will become a hot spot and people will be encouraged and uplifted by reading the words on the screen but more realistically, there will just be empty words unless the Lord chooses to do something with these seemingly meaningless thoughts. So read on if you will. A commentary by Matthew Henry suggests:. I began to wonder about my own life. What objects in my life have I made into idols? Return...
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Maria's blog: July 2012
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Wednesday, July 25, 2012. I've heard it said, "Experience is the best teacher.". I've been thinking long and hard about even posting this because it threatens my insecurities. I hate to really open up to anyone because I hate to look weak. I fear being "found out." I have a lot of pride and I see that this is something that desperately needs to change in me. But mercy is best described as "not getting something we do deserve.". We all are affected by that misery and sin, aren't we? Isn't what God is want...
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Maria's blog: April 2009
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Thursday, April 09, 2009. My neighbor's name is Ben. Today is his birthday. He turns 88. He is a widower. He lost his beloved Josephine 15 months ago. He's lived in the same house since he was a boy. He raised his own family in the house he was raised in. He recounts stories of how he has seen our small town expand and change with the decades. He's grown old with his wife there. I hope someday Ben can grasp how fully he is loved by his Father. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). View my complete profile.
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Maria's blog: July 2009
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Wednesday, July 08, 2009. The following is a dump of photos that document a few of the things we did as a family this past spring. The weather was really nice this spring and we had a lot of opportunities to be outside. After dinner one evening we found ourselves at a nearby park and went on a hike. It was fun to explore a new place, and one so close to home. I found after grocery shopping I could go hiking if I wanted to. :). We had opportunities to travel too. We took a few day trips, one to Kitter...
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Maria's blog: January 2010
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Saturday, January 23, 2010. Don't try to explain it. Http:/ www.dispatch.com/live/content/faith values/stories/2010/01/22/fv nathan.ART ART 01-22-10 B4 H1GCGLB.html? Wednesday, January 20, 2010. How can I not be moved? I don't have anything that can compare. So I can't know or judge what is going on. I've not been given that role. Oh Jesus, come, bring Your compassion, your healing, your freedom to these people. Their greatest needs are things I take for granted each day. Change me. Give me y...Of course...
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Maria's blog: Digging it up...
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Tuesday, July 09, 2013. We've recently moved to another state. Part of the house that had me most excited was the yard. The previous owners had at one time, long ago, planted a garden. My heart soared when I saw the space, 22'x20. It's huge, at least for what I was used to, a small triangle sized area about 3'x4' where last year I planted some tomatoes and lettuces at our rental house. But I had picked up poison ivy in the process. Thus began a month of terrible itching and pain. :(. Then a few weeks lat...
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Maria's blog: March 2009
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Friday, March 27, 2009. God appointed Esther as queen for an exact reason, one she readily did not understand. She didn't know why favor had been granted to her by King Xerxes, but as a reader and an outsider, it is easier to see it just wasn't the king's favor, it was the Lord's. Probably not. They were "dispersed and scattered" throughout the king's provinces. Haman was crafting lies to fulfill his own agenda. Did he know the implications of the decree that was just given? What do we look like to our n...