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Blessed With Faith During the month of August, my blogs focused on blessings. The phrase, “Blessings all mine and ten thousands beside,” from the old hymn, Great is Thy Faithfulness, ignited my inspiration to write about blessings.  The author of those words, Thomas O. Chisholm made me think of all the goodness I experience in…

When Our Faith is Stressed Though the death of our stillborn son, Elliott, happened almost forty years ago, I still remember the intensity of my grief and the uncertainty that my faith would survive.   Back then, I was young and naive. I’d experienced a few mild trials in my short walk of faith with God,…

Choices That Bless Our Lives It is a hard, cold fact: our lives take on a particular shape and pattern based on the choices we make.   I cannot count the number of choices I make on any given day, but I know that choices shape my day. Whether I exercise, eat clean foods, engage with…

Blessed by Mistakes? Yesterday morning was a comedy of errors. I spilled something on the stove and failed to see its baked remains. I threw some of my husband’s clean clothes down the laundry chute because I thought they were dirty and I’d tossed out something from the mail that needed to be kept. I…