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When you gaze at a mountain from the base, it looks extremely big! Sometimes challenges in life are just like the mountains – huge! To reach the peak, mountain climbers keep persevering all the way to the top. Sweet mom, climbers reach the summit, inch by inch ~ persistence grants rewards. Keep going!
So let’s not get tired of doing what is good. At just the right time we will reap a harvest of blessing if we don’t give up. (Galatians 6:9, NLT)
Start Fresh One day we had a herd of cows delivered to the farm. It was suppertime and I expected my husband home any minute, however, the delivery truck arrived a few minutes early and I shuttered, “Oh noooooooo, I need the delivery guy to wait for my husband before letting the cows out!!!” I […]
I love watching the Winter and Summer Olympics. Listening to athletes share their journey to excellence and watching them perform; is just plain wonderful. They have such perseverance and grit – all of them reaching the top of their game. You can be sure this summer I’ll be watching! Incredibly, even now as you read […]
In Despair – Waves Too High My son decided to enter a triathlon and once he signed up, he knew the swimming component would challenge him. To better prepare for this part of the race and living far from a pool, he trained in a nearby pond for many months. Some days it was cold. […]
Sarah Needed Patience Perhaps you have heard the story of Abraham and Sarah in the Bible. God promises them a child and when that child does not come – Sarah takes matters into her own hands. She doesn’t wait on God’s timing. We certainly find Sarah’s solution to her problem appalling. To believe another woman’s […]
So Great A Price I watched with fascination a documentary on lions. In particular, a pride of starving lions. They had encircled quite a group of elephants and were staring down their supper – their babies … baby elephants. The grown elephants growled, roared and kicked up clouds of dust. In an attempt to ward […]