Simply Grateful

For our boast is this, the testimony of our conscience, that we behaved in the world with simplicity and godly sincerity, not by earthly wisdom but by the grace of God... 2 Corinthians 1:12 It is a new year, and the call has gone out to simplify our lives. It seems every other email I have received lately was an article on six ways to simplify my life or 10 great products that would do the simplifying for me.  Many …

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Don’t Go Into the Cellar! Fear and our faith

I sought the Lord, and He answered me; He delivered me from all my fears. Psalms 34:4 When I was little, my mom had a rattlesnake rattle in her top dresser drawer. It was kept in a gold ring box -- a token from her teenage years living in New Mexico.  She and a group of friends were on the sand dunes near her home. She stepped off a rock and was confronted by an enormous rattlesnake coiled and ready. A boyfriend saved her and presented her with the rattle as a memento.  …

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