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I'm sitting in the book of James these days when he tells me to... Count it all joy...when you meet trials of various kinds, for you know that the testing of your faith produces steadfastness. And let steadfastness have its full effect, that you may be perfect and complete, ...
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What dreadful hot weather we have. It keeps one in a continual state of inelegance. Jane Austen I'm learning to laugh at myself. It's about time. I've said it before, the choice is mine. I can accept my imperfections - the things I can't change - and be ...
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In the spring of 1968, when 23 year old Nicholas Cutinha was mortally wounded protecting fellow soldiers in battle, I was preparing to graduate from high school. As I anticipated my future with the hope and excitement all graduates experience, the parents of Nicholas Cutinha were grieving the tragic ...
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The grass withers, the flower fades,
but the word of our God will stand forever.Isaiah 40:8 ESV
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A wise old owl lived in an oak The more he saw the less he spoke The less he spoke the more he heard. Why can't we all be like that wise old bird? ~ anon Not exactly "a wise old owl", this little one - not yet a ...
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When morning light rises on the horizon north of the misty river... and black-eyed susans raise their faces to the sun and 'skeeters in the wet grass nibble at our ankles while lacey-winged dragonflies cling to twigs and branches and along the barb-wire fence and skip across the pond ...
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I use every resource at my disposal to identify this heron whose image I captured this weekend as he waded in and out of the water and snatched a blue-tipped damsel fly out of the air. Every bird identification tool I use confirms he's a tricolored heron - from ...
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And God is able to make all grace abound to you, so that having all sufficiency in all things at all times, you may abound in every good work.
2 Corinthians 9:8
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It's not quite 7:00 when I stop at the top of the bridge long enough to capture the sun rising over the misty river. It's not the first time I've done that - foot on the brake, grab the camera and shoot. Five seconds, tops. My friend insists that ...
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Come later this summer, the delicate pale pink blooms of the beautyberry will develop into tight clusters of glossy, iridescent purple berries that give this native beauty its name. Beautyberry grows wild in the moist thickets along Pollywog Creek - often entangled in grapevines and hidden by rusty lyonia ...