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Jewels From The Word
July 30, 2018
I lost my peace this week. Grumbling and complaining. Trying to do too much. Getting bent out of shape over little details. It wasn't pretty. My mind was bombarded all week with little things. Silly little things. I accidentally jerked a pitcher of water o...
Jewels From The Word
July 23, 2018
Vacation Bible School has been going on at different churches in our town the last few weeks. Some of my fondest childhood memories of summertime were from Bible school. “Stand up, stand up for Jesus, ye soldiers of the cross.” We started Bible scho...
Jewels From The Word
July 16, 2018
Okay, you caught me. I screen my phone calls. When the phone rings, if it’s a number I don’t know, I don’t answer it. When the answering machine cuts in, I wait to hear if someone will leave a message. Remember when we were happy to get a phon...
Jewels From The Word
July 9, 2018
When Joseph brought his father and brothers into Egypt during the time of famine, God had a purpose in it—to save their lives and their race. Joseph, the prime minister of Egypt, wanted his father Jacob to join him there. God spoke to Jacob in the night a...
Jewels From The Word
July 2, 2018
Granddad had a strawberry patch in his backyard when I was a kid. He grew Stilwell strawberries, the kind they grow in Stilwell, Oklahoma, The Strawberry Capitol of the World. Mom and Daddy had a berry patch at different times in our lives, but those were never...
Jewels From The Word
June 25, 2018
Several years ago my 8-year-old grandson and I found empty cicada shells on the patio, split down the back, with the feet still attached to the columns. "Oh, the poor bug is dead," he said. "No, he is still alive," I told him. "He grew a new...
Jewels From The Word
June 18, 2018
Make-overs are all the rage these days. Make over your home, your garden, your hair, your clothes. Some people need a major overhaul, a total make-over, from their hair to their homes to their lives. I had a major over-haul in 1975, when I rededicated my l...
Jewels From The Word
June 11, 2018
My first memory of shoe shopping is leaving the store crying because Mama bought the ugly tie-up shoes instead of the cute Mary Janes I wanted so badly. Another time when I was being fitted, the man pressed on my toe and I pulled it back, so when I got home tha...
Jewels From The Word
June 4, 2018
Most people in a small town don’t drive badly, but the ones that do irritate me no end. Small-town drivers stop where there is no stop sign and run stop signs. They pass on the right, where there is pavement but only one lane, especially where someone is ...
Jewels From The Word
May 28, 2018
Daniel was one of four most prominent Jews in Babylon. He and the three Hebrew children--Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego—obeyed the law even in a foreign country where they had been carried captive. Through the lions’ den and the fiery furnace, they...
Jewels From The Word
May 21, 2018
Last fall when the peonies died, I was struggling with allergies so I didn’t pull or cut the dead stalks. I didn’t pull grass out of them. Okay, I didn’t do anything, I just let them die and lay there on the ground, reminding me every time I g...
Jewels From The Word
May 14, 2018
My little brother Ross and his playmate came into the house one afternoon to get a drink of water. As they passed the bedroom, they heard Mama praying. Ross' playmate asked, "What's she doin' in there?" Ross replied, "Oh, don't pay no 'tention to her. She's alw...
