With Friends Like These

By Beth | April 6, 2009

  Today I got to see a friend I hadn’t seen in a number of months. She told me about feeling like she was in high school because one friend found out that she had gone to lunch and shopping with another friend and wasn’t speaking to her because of it – these are ladies…

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Good and Forgiving

By Beth | March 30, 2009

Psalm 84:5 For you, O Lord, are good and forgiving, abounding in steadfast love to all who call upon you. As I read this verse I was reminded of the words of a song quoting another verse that says, “The steadfast love of the Lord never ceases; His mercies never come to an end.” (Lamentations…

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Caught or Taught

By Beth | March 26, 2009

Some weeks I see my granddaughter several times and some weeks not at all, depending on our schedules. This week I have gotten lots of “Stella” time. This is partly because her uncle is home for the week and partly because I babysat one night. What I have observed in my time with this little…

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Give It Up

By Beth | March 23, 2009

It’s Lent. In the past three days I have talked to someone who has “given up” going out to dinner, someone who has “given up” all sweets, and today, someone who has “given up” all chocolate. Today’s encounter was the most  interesting. I was in the presence of this woman for about a half an…

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Love That’s Better Than Life

By Beth | March 19, 2009

I have been told and even experienced the truth of the teaching that God blesses obedience. Today I have joy in the Lord over a weekend spent in His service. I am tired but it is a “good tired” because God blessed me all weekend as He taught through me and He continues to bless…

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No Shrinking

By Beth | March 16, 2009

How many times over the course of my life as a Christian have I shrunk from saying or teaching what the Bible clearly says about an issue? How often, even with Christians that I thought may not want to be corrected or to hear what I had to say, have I let a sin go?…

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