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616 Blog Posts Under This Category Now Displaying Page 14, Blog Posts 326 to 350 « Previous | Next » Page 1.. 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 Category: Blogging WILL...YOU LOVE ME TO DEATH? - beanerywriters(11,675) While I was writing this poem, the kids wanted to know what I was doing. I told them I was writing the poem as a way of releasing that part of my life, and they thought they wanted to help. They wanted to do something, so I told them we would do a cover for the poem, a cover page. And I told them... Category: Blogging DUST MOTE - beanerywriters(11,675) They clung to her hair and got into her nose so that she wanted to sneeze. she held her hand over her mouth trying not to breathe rather than reveal her hiding place. Category: Blogging JOCHEBED AND LUCY: STORIES OF ADOPTION AND MOTHER LOVE Part 1 - beanerywriters(11,675) Below is Part 1 of a 2-Part conversation between Lucy, a contemporary woman, and Jochebed, a woman from the Bible’s Old Testament. Both women “lost” infants they “gave up” for “adoption” due to the exceptional circumstances of their lives. Lucy’s... Category: Blogging BLOG OF THE DAY AWARD GOES TO... - beanerywriters(11,675) ANNOUNCEMENT: The Beanery Online Literary Magazine received the Blog of the Day Award on April 21, 2007. Click on site below to view. ---Carolyn Blog of the Day Awards offers the best selection of weblogs and famous blogs on a variety of topics. Selection of Best Blogs of the Day is usually done... Category: Blogging RUSS'S ASSIGNMENT" WRITE CAROLYN'S EULOGY Lent Devotion #4 - CarolynCHolland(9,534)   Mark 14:8 She (an unnamed woman) did what she could. She poured perfume on my body beforehand to prepare for my burial. (NIV) REFLECTION: Jesus was supportive of the simple but elegant gift given by an unknown woman. He explained its symbolic meaning: she was preparing him for his burial. It puts...Category: Blogging LAUGHTER HEALS DRY BONES Lent Devotion #5 - CarolynCHolland(9,534) The Beanery Writers Group is posting a Lent Devotion each day of the season. They are using devotions posted at www.methodists-care.org , the Open Hands Ministries web site that includes information on the United Methodist Churches in the Ligonier Valley. Devotions are written by southwestern...Category: Blogging HIDDEN TRANSGRESSIONS: The Importance of Integrity Lent Devotion #11 - CarolynCHolland(9,534) SCRIPTURE: Job 31:33 I covered my transgressions as Adam, by hiding mine iniquity in my bosom. (KJV) Matthew 23:25 Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye make clean the outside of the cup and of the platter, but within they are full of extortion and excess! (KJV) Our personable...Category: Blogging DEFILING GOD’S CREATION THROUGH PROGRESS Lent Devotion #42 - CarolynCHolland(9,534) SCRIPTURE: Numbers 35:35 Do not defile the land where you live and where I dwell, for I, the Lord, dwell among the Israelites. (NIV) REFLECTION: Developed countries tend to pollute the land through materialistic demands. One of these demands is top-notch medical care. Good medical care, though a blCategory: Blogging OLD TESTAMENT HISTORY PROGRESSES Lent Devotion #40 - CarolynCHolland(9,534) Matthew 5:17 “Do not think that I came to destroy the Law or the Prophets. I did not come to destroy but to fulfill….” (KJV) REFLECTION: After a vicious thunderstorm I sat in a rocky cove at Wallis Sands Beach, New Hampshire, watching five to ten foot waves roll shoreward with...Category: Blogging GOD'S FORM OF COMMUNICATION? Lent Devotion #20 - CarolynCHolland(9,534) SCRIPTURE: Numbers 9:16-17 16. So it was always: the cloud covered it by day, and the appearance of fire by night. 17. Whenever the cloud was taken up from above the tabernacle, after that the children of Israel would journey; and in the place where the cloud settled, there the children of Israel...Category: Blogging HAVE WE LOST OUR COMMON SENSE? Lent Devotion #39 - CarolynCHolland(9,534) SCRIPTURE: Galatians 3:11 Clearly no one is justified before God by the law because, “The righteous will live by faith.” (NI) REFLECTION: Our world has been turned upside down. Signs should be posted. AFFECTION BANNED: YIELD TO EFFECTS OF DANGEROUS PEOPLE. That is, do not hug...Category: Blogging LIONS STILL GUARD MAJESTIC BUILDINGS Lent Devotion #27 - CarolynCHolland(9,534) SCRIPTURE: 1 Kings 10:20 And twelve lions stood there on one side and on the other side on the six steps… (KJV) REFLECTION: I try to visit to my childhood home in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, every few years. Each time, I trace the roads I traveled as a child. On one street is the former...Category: Blogging BEAR ONE ANOTHER'S BURDONS Lent Devotion #43 - CarolynCHolland(9,534) SCRIPTURE: Galatians 6:2 Bear ye one another's burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ. Related Scripture: Romans 15:1 REFLECTION: It takes a village to raise a child is wisdom. Parents cannot be all-seeing, all-knowing, omnipresent. One Sunday morning I meandered to my window to enjoy the...Category: Blogging I HATE MY JOB! Lent Devotion #44 - CarolynCHolland(9,534) SCRIPTURE: Psalm 46:10 Be still and know that I am God: I will be exalted among the heathen, I will be exalted in the earth. Related Scripture: Isaiah 2:11, 17 REFLECTION: Bill hates his job as grocery store check-out clerk. Not only is it a job he does not want, but you should see the people, he...Category: Blogging GOOD COMETH FROM EVIL Lent Devotion #41 - CarolynCHolland(9,534) Genesis 50:15 When Joseph's brethren saw that their father was dead, they said, Perhaps now Joseph will hate us and will pay us back for all the evil we did to him. REFLECTION: Guilt can remain with a person many years. It did for Joseph's brothers, producing a fear that Joseph would be like...Category: Blogging BORING FOOD Lent Devotion #37 - CarolynCHolland(9,534) SCRIPTURE: Exodus 16:35 And the children of Israel ate manna forty years, until they came to an inhabited land; they ate manna until they came to the border of the land of Canaan. (KJV) REFLECTION: Our bodies are delicately made, precisely balanced. When one part develops a problem, there is a...Category: Blogging JASPER MILQUETOAST: PRECIOUS STONE, PHYSICS TEACHER Lent Devotion #36 - CarolynCHolland(9,534) SCRIPTURE: Exodus 28:20 And the fourth row a beryl, and an onyx, and a jasper: they shall be set in gold in their inclosings. (KJV) Revelation 21:19 The foundations of the city walls were decorated with every kind of precious stone. The first foundation was jasper, the second sapphire, the third...Category: Blogging CHILDISH CHARACTERISTICS - CarolynCHolland(9,534) While traveling along the road on a work/vacation trip to New England, we met many people in libraries, courthouses, beaches, stores, and restaurants. Interactions with children provided many wonderful moments. Today and tomorrow I’ll share some of these meetings with you. Carolyn the...Category: Blogging Thundersnow in Buffalo October 2006 - CarolynCHolland(9,534) This is a long entry, but the topic is huge---personal reports from Buffalo, New York. Monte and I stopped at his sister’s home in northern New York where we met his brother and sister for lunch. It was October 12. That evening residents of our next planned stop, a suburb of Buffalo...Category: Blogging The tragic side of vacation - CarolynCHolland(9,534) October 16, 2006 We're home from our trip now, having accomplished much in terms of family and writing research, visiting and having new experiences. Our trip was marred by four events that occurred back home while we were away. The first call came from where we lived four addresses ago. Cindy...Category: Blogging Travel Apprehension: EARTHQUAKES - CarolynCHolland(9,534) October 10, from Ellsworth, Maine library. Although I really wanted to travel to Lamoine, Maine, my visit was filled with trepidation and apprehension. While in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, I heard rumblings on the news of an earthquake on Mount Desert Island, where Bar Harbor is. The island...Category: Blogging More critters---oh, no! - CarolynCHolland(9,534) October 6, 2006 After promising I was through with critters, we were met with the perfume of a skunk on our arrival to the hotel room last night. Anyway, such creative writing I'm getting to do during our trip. There's usually just time to jot down our travels, and we've really had no excapades...Category: Blogging From Lamoine, Maine - CarolynCHolland(9,534) October 5, 2006 We made it to Lamoine, Maine, and even traveled to the beach, where all I could do was take a couple nice photo shots. We are on a mission: researching genealogy, land deeds and material to enhance the historical novel I am writing. So no more critters, I guess. Since we are here...Category: Blogging The Monarch Gatherings - CarolynCHolland(9,534) October 4, 2006 In reviewing my notes from 2003 I noticed when we visited Foster Park in Kittery, Maine on Sept. 30, it was the Monarch butterfly gathering time and place. Since we were here on the same date we drove back to the park, but since it was a weekend this time they were charging $10 a...Category: Blogging OBITUARY FOR BLUE BUOY (A Blue Lobster) - CarolynCHolland(9,534) October 3, 2006. Actually, this is being written in the Kennebunk, Maine library, but it has to do with an event in Portsmouth. Fortunately, the Kennebunk Library computers DO NOT have timers, and the library is more gracious with the time allowed on their electronics. Maybe today I can do more... |
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