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Jewels From The Word
February 17, 2020
Now that the Valentine’s Day TV commercials are over, husbands all over the U.S. can breathe a sigh of relief. They have lived through another year of diamond advertisements. Yes, Valentine’s Day is too commercialized, as all holidays are now. Yes, ...
Jewels From The Word
February 3, 2020
I have probably spent one-quarter of my life taking pictures, looking at pictures, printing pictures, or going through pictures looking for a particular one. I suppose you could say that my hobby is photography. I have a lot of hobbies. Counted cross-stitch, ...
Jewels From The Word
January 27, 2020
Our family was quarantined with scarlet fever when I was about 10. Someone from the health department posted a notice on our front door saying no one was to enter or exit the house for two weeks. The corner grocery store left sacks of groceries on our...
Jewels From The Word
January 20, 2020
After all those years of working outside the home, sometimes I feel like I never want to leave my house again. I started working as a waitress when I was 15 years old. In 2003, I retired from the phone company after 32 years and, after a year off, I started m...
Jewels From The Word
January 13, 2020
My Aunt Rosa Mae passed away recently. She used to talk a lot about the old days when all 8 kids were at home on the small farm in the 1930s. An idyllic life, going to school and going to church, working the farm. Running those hills. Setting rabbit traps for...
Jewels From The Word
January 6, 2020
"I’ll Fly Away" was my granddaddy’s favorite song. He learned to read music, but didn’t play any instrument. Granddad sang bass and Grandmother Hightower sang the melody and played the guitar. Grandmother put me in front of the church wh...
Jewels From The Word
December 30, 2019
One of my New Year’s Resolutions is to simplify. Same resolution for 10 years.Lately I have been trying really hard to get rid of stuff. It is an ongoing battle, a struggle to keep what is necessary and let go of things that I don’t need, I don...
Jewels From The Word
December 23, 2019
Mary held baby Jesus in Her arms moments after His birth and looked into the eyes of God’s Son. She washed the effects of his natural childbirth from His face and wrapped Him in swaddling clothes she had brought along on her journey just for that purpos...
Jewels From The Word
December 16, 2019
I’m sure all Mary wanted was to be left alone, so she could rest after the birth. She sure wasn’t ready for any company, much less strangers. However not long after she gave birth and wrapped the baby in the special clothing she had b...
Jewels From The Word
December 9, 2019
In the years when we were teenagers, Mama bought a silver aluminum Christmas tree, and we decorated it with all our old decorations she had accumulated over those early years. Our favorite lights were the old-fashioned bubble lights that looked like oil pumpi...
Jewels From The Word
December 2, 2019
Heaven must have been lonely without Jesus. For nine months, the anticipation had been building in heaven as Jesus' little body was growing from a tiny embryo into a baby capable of living outside the womb. The angels had watched and waited, knowing Jesus wa...
Jewels From The Word
November 25, 2019
I’m thankful for a warm house, with electricity and running water and two bathrooms; heat in the winter and air conditioning in the summer; nice but not new furniture, mattresses and good bedding; way too many clothes in walk-in closets; and way too many ...
