Category: Flowers for MY Pastor’s Wife

My daughter, as a student and as a teacher, has always loved the start of a new school year. New, clean pages in notebooks. A…

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For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven . . . a time to weep, and a time to laugh; a…

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Ugly sweaters, white elephant gifts – our creative culture has figured out a way to make the worst gifts useable. Not valuable. Useable.  Each of…

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Each summer for the last thirty-seven years I’ve had the privilege of serving a week or two at a girls’ camp in Illinois. While fun,…

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Have you ever noticed how many times trees are mentioned in the Bible? BibleGateway brings up 269 references for the word tree. (Don’t worry. I’ll…

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Hebrews 10:23-25 “Let us hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering, for he who promised is faithful.  And let us consider how to stir up one…

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Do you want to be more compassionate? Look at the list of synonyms for this word: pitying, sympathetic, empathetic, understanding, caring, concerned, solicitous, sensitive, tenderhearted, softhearted, warmhearted, warm, loving, tender, gentle, merciful, lenient, tolerant, considerate, thoughtful, kind, kindly, kindhearted, humanitarian, humane, charitable, benevolent,  good-natured, well disposed, big-hearted My definition includes giving…

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Let us know; let us press on to know the Lord;     his going out is sure as the dawn; he will come to us as the showers,     as…

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Pot Luck /ˌpätˈlək/ noun -used in reference to a situation in which one must take a chance that whatever is available will prove to be…

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Thank you, Father, for my pastor’s wife. She is one of the happiest people I know. Whenever she sees me, her face brightens into a…

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