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Dec 29, 2025 – Intercessors

Dec 29, 2025 – Intercessors

Two sisters walked in the colonoscopy office just before us this morning. Each step in the check-in process that the sister-patient took, we knew Don would be called next; so, when the sister-driver (the...

Dec 28, 2025 – Baggage

Dec 28, 2025 – Baggage

Like yesterday, I’m again a day late writing. It almost feels like it’s still the 28th because it’s dark and very early in the morning, but I know it’s Monday the 29th because I’m...

Dec 27, 2025 – The Road Ahead

Dec 27, 2025 – The Road Ahead

There’s one house in the valley below that is glowing with Christmas lights. You can see it through the trees in the bottom right of the photo. It makes me smile whenever I see...

Dec 26, 2025 – Enough

Dec 26, 2025 – Enough

JA – I AM THE GREATEST GIFT IMAGINABLE! When you have Me, you have everything you need – for this life and the next. I have promised to meet all your needs according to...

Dec 25, 2025 – Bethlehem

Dec 25, 2025 – Bethlehem

Yesterday afternoon as I was tying up all of the loose ends of wrapping and meal prep and cleaning, “The Santa Claus 2” was on TV. I’ve lost count of how many times I’ve...

Dec 24, 2025 – Giving Big

Dec 24, 2025 – Giving Big

Don sold one of his (NINE) tubas yesterday afternoon. Not the one in the photo though. That’s the one he plays in Tuba Christmas every year. (If you’ve never been to Tuba Christmas, you...

Dec 23, 2025 – Appreciate

Dec 23, 2025 – Appreciate

We had a family holiday gathering last night. It was so much fun that we didn’t even mind straightening up the debris this morning. One thing I always enjoy, which I’m guessing will sound...

Dec 22, 2025 – Hot or Cold

Dec 22, 2025 – Hot or Cold

In his sermon yesterday, Pastor Mark Pettus (Church of the Highlands) used a car analogy which really spoke to me that I guess I’ve never thought of in relation to faith. I don’t have...

Dec 21, 2025 – Expect Miracles

Dec 21, 2025 – Expect Miracles

Streams – Cowman quotes J. R. Miller in today’s devotion, “Every difficult stretch of road on which you see the Master’s footprints and along which He calls you to follow Him leads unquestionably to...

Dec 20, 2025 – Tuned In

Dec 20, 2025 – Tuned In

While at physical therapy yesterday, face down on my table doing my best to lift my arm in a backwards motion, I heard my therapist at another table telling that person about his daughter...