March Winds – 1st Sunday Devotional

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“Close your eyes and turn your face into the wind. Feel it sweep along your skin in an invisible ocean of exultation. Suddenly, you know you are alive.” ― Vera Nazarian, The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration March in my part of the country can show you snow, rain, sunshine, sleet, and clouds – sometimes all in the same day. But the one thing you can …

1st Sunday Devotional – Let It Shine

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Winter sunlight is a warm old soul, spreading love in the bitter cold. ~Angie Weiland-Crosby Don’t you just love a winter day filled with sunlight? Perhaps you have a favorite chair by a window where the sun streams in to warm you when winter has thrown cold winds our way. Sunlight can make everything more beautiful and cheer our souls. Sunlight …

1st Sunday Devotional – With Wings Like Eagles

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  You cannot fly like an eagle with the wings of a wren. ~William Henry Hudson As I wrote in my last post, our family went on a short vacation to the Barren River Lake. The lake was beautiful and I was especially excited when I read in the information about the place that October started the time of the …

1st Sunday Devotional – Keep Seeing the Good

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Life ‘s beautiful when you learn to see the good in everything instead of seeing the flaws. ~Jr. Ronaldo How we see things is often influenced by our perspective or attitude. Someone once saw the thistle bloom and thought it lovely enough to plant in their garden. The seeds flew out and landed on new fields where it had never been …

1st Sunday Devotional – In Storm or Sunshine

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The Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom. …2 Corinthians 3:17 (NIV) Back when I posted the first of my 1st Sunday Devotionals, I told you how I had once upon a time thought about doing a Hiker’s Devotional. At the time I had maybe fifteen devotionals I’d written when I was …

Rooted in the Word – 1st Sunday Devotional

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  When the roots are deep, there is no reason to fear the wind. (Chinese Proverb) When I hike, the easy path is not always the one I take. Sometimes I clamber up or down the steep hillsides in search of a new wildflower or a different viewpoint of a familiar scene. There are times though that the hillside is …

1st Sunday Devotionals – When a Dog Can Walk No More

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You will show me the path of life; in Your presence is fullness of joy; at Your right hand are pleasures forevermore. …Psalm 16:11 (NKJV) There’s nothing quite so sad as looking back at a dog sitting in the path no longer able to walk with you. I like dogs. When I was around ten, I begged and begged for …

1st Sunday Devotional – The Blessing of Work

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Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart, as working for the Lord, not for human masters. ~Colossians 3:23 (NIV) I love this picture. It proves that at one time my desk looked neat and organized. My desk now is a paper magnet. Papers and envelopes and books and notebooks. And too much of all of that. Cleaning off …

1st Sunday Devotional – Cows Know

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Spring means grass growing and flowers blooming as winter backs away to await its turn in December. Many say spring is their favorite season of the year because of the way our natural world shakes off the gray of winter and breaks out in color. Since I’m someone who likes walking out on my farm in all seasons and that …

Sunday Thoughts – Waking Up to Nature’s Beauty

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1st Sunday Devotional on a 2nd Sunday… Have you ever taken a walk on a beautiful day and not seen the soft white clouds in the deep blue sky? I have. Have you passed close to a honeysuckle vine and not noticed the sweet odor? Have you felt a bug on your shoulder and brushed it off without checking to …