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Blog Posts by CarolynCHolland(9,534)   165 Blog Posts Total Now Displaying Page 2, Posts 26 to 50 « Previous | Next » 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 HAVE WE LOST OUR COMMON SENSE? Lent Devotion #39 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... LIONS STILL GUARD MAJESTIC BUILDINGS Lent Devotion #27 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... BEAR ONE ANOTHER'S BURDONS Lent Devotion #43 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 Sun I HATE MY JOB! Lent Devotion #44 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... GOOD COMETH FROM EVIL Lent Devotion #41 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... BORING FOOD Lent Devotion #37 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... JASPER MILQUETOAST: PRECIOUS STONE, PHYSICS TEACHER Lent Devotion #36 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 CHILDISH CHARACTERISTICS 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... Thundersnow in Buffalo October 2006 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... The tragic side of vacation 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... Travel Apprehension: EARTHQUAKES 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... More critters---oh, no! 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... From Lamoine, Maine 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... The Monarch Gatherings 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... OBITUARY FOR BLUE BUOY (A Blue Lobster) 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... From the Antiquarian Library September 28, 2006. Greetings to all from New England. Monte and I began our New England sojourn on Cape Cod, the guests of Bob, my father's cousin. He was preparing to close his Cape Cod cottage and to open his Florida home, but was gracious... Moose, Goose, Deer Definitely it was not a goose. This beast was massive, Certainly not passive. While racing high speed ahead It saw me and it stopped dead. JOCHEBED AND LUCY: STORIES OF ADOPTION AND MOTHER LOVE Below is a 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... OVERSTUFFED Lent Devotion #13 Matthew 6:19-20 Do not gather and heap up and store for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust and worm consume and destroy, and where thieves break through and steal; 20. But gather and heap up and store for yourselves treasures in... MY SPIDER PLANT LIVES Lent Devotion #14 Micah 5:7 And the remnant of Jacob shall be in the midst of many people as a dew from the Lord, as the showers upon the grass, that tarrieth not for man, nor waiteth for the sons of men. (KJV) I found my three-foot high planter tipped over on my... WHO IS SERVING WHOM? Lent Devotion #16 SCRIPTURE: 1 Kings 12:7 Then they (the elders) spoke to him (King Rehoboam), saying, “If you will be as a servant to this people today, will serve them, grant them their petition, and speak good words to them, then they will be your servants... CHILDREN CAN BE HEAVY LADEN Lent Devotion #21 SCRIPTURE: Matthew 11:28 “Come to Me, all you who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.”(NKJV) REFLECTION: I was alone with nine year-old Susie when she approached me at my computer and began a conversation about her... THE YOUGHIOGHENY (RIVER) CRAWL Lent Devotion #22 SCRIPTURE: Exodus 7:21 The fish that were in the river died, the river stank, and the Egyptians could not drink the water of the river... (KJV) REFLECTION: I find surprising revelations emerge in news-feature work. One occurred during an interview... LEAD ME TO MY ROCKING CHAIR Lent Devotion #24 SCRIPTURE: John 5:36 “I (Jesus) have testimony weightier than that of John. For the very work that the Father has given me to finish, and which I am doing, testifies that the Father has sent me.” (NIV) REFLECTION: The late Mrs. Grim... COME CELEBRATE MY FUNERAL Lent Devotion #23 SCRIPTURE: Genesis 15:15 And you shall to your fathers in peace; you shall be buried in a good old (hoary) age. (Amp) REFLECTION: My friend Norma Leary wrote in jest that perhaps we ought to take the “fun” out of the word... 165 Blog Posts Total Now Displaying Page 2, Posts 26 to 50 « Previous | Next » 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 |
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