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SMITTEN with MITTENS!

March 7, 2018

She opens her arms to the poor and extends her hands to the needy. Proverbs 31:20 I would like to take you back to the morning of November 29, 2017. In just four short weeks, a charitable group of women with busy hands helped us reach our goal of knitting and crocheting 100 pairs of hand made mittens that were to be handed out alongside the Salvation Army’s Christmas toy hamper program at our church. That morning I stood behind a table displaying, not 100, but actually 158 pairs of ...

Faith, Inspired

I used to count sheep…

February 24, 2018

Can’t sleep? I’ve been there too! I guess that is one of the many joys of being in my fifties. All of a sudden I find myself wide awake in the middle of the night! I’ve tried many remedies like counting sheep, drinking a glass of warm milk or reading a book, but none of them have worked. The longer I try to quietly lay there coaxing myself back to sleep the more restless I become. When we were young we may not have wanted to go to bed because we were frightened of the ...

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I crochet… and I PRAY!

February 18, 2018

How do I pray? I don’t know what to say . Is there anyone out there that has felt the same hesitation towards their prayer time? My first introduction to prayer was the Lord’s Prayer. I’m thankful for my early school years where in our classrooms we began each day by singing “Oh Canada”, followed by “God Save the Queen” and then in unison we recited the Lord’s Prayer. Little did I know that a foundation of beginning each day in prayer was set for ...

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Fix Your Eyes Above

February 7, 2018

I have yet another learning experience to share with you today! A good sign that I’m tired and may have piled too much into my schedule is that I tend to get irritable and don’t understand why others don’t see things my way. I admit I can get inpatient, moody and quite bothered that they don’t recognize just how busy I am! I fool myself in thinking that I keep these frustrations to myself. I try to watch what comes out of my mouth but in reality my actions and the ...

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