Mind Blowing Story…Many of you stood with us when we asked for your support to protect our beautiful pure Lick Creek waterway from using it as a conduit for waste management in other neighboring counties. They proposed to dump their waste treatment waters into it. We thank you for your prayers!!! What I am about […]
I remember a time when I was a young mother and I had two toddlers and a baby. Life was busy and I couldn’t see past the piles of laundry, meals needing to be made, dishes to wash, and the constant needs of the three little ones. I often felt alone sitting there. I even
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I finally have twins!!! Aren’t these babies so sweet! Each weighing nearly 6 lbs! Truth be told, I always prayed for twins. God had a sense of humor on how he gives us the desires of our hearts! The garden has yielded so much from the hand of God! Fall is in the air and
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For this week I want to center around love. As a wife and mother, the very essence of my existence is to love and to be loved by those in my own household, first, and then to those that are not in my household-my neighbors. More importantly, I must grasp the meaning of love by
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Hello little Stranger welcome to our world. I was pining away wondering what God would bring on this new path we were heading down. Would I have a call in the night for a little baby or a sibling group? Weeks had passed and I was getting worried why we never got a call after
As we walk through life, sometimes paths change. Sometimes so unexpectedly that you get caught off guard. Others think you are crazy when you start something and you have to stop in the middle of a great plan and redirect the course. Sometimes I get it into my head that I will NEVER do one
Last week Molly, Teddy, and I rolled up the long drive that lead to a complex surrounded in razor wire and strong metal bars. This was the same prison we rolled up to 2 1/2 years before to pick up one special creature. Teddy. The first time we entered this place, we truly did not
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Strawberry jam runs deep in my memory. I remember Grandma always having her jam that we would slather on top of her homemade breads and Mom carrying on the tradition as we had our garden plot growing up that Dad cared for each day. When I had littles, I started into making strawberry jam. My
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Last week we got a frantic call from out dear neighbor, Miss Shirley. One of her cows died and there was left this 3 week old orphaned calf. A little bull calf. Her love for her animals cannot be matched. They are her life and breath. She would lay her life down for her animals
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Spring is nearly here and we are all getting the itch to start a garden. Soon we will be breaking ground, amending soil, and getting our garden in full swing. I will start you off with another little excerpt out of my upcoming book about my life story… That spring as Mark was tilling the
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