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Olive Who Knows How to Match

9 Oct

Our friend Olive makes people feel precious. She makes me feel precious. She shares her heart with me and she listens to mine. I should slip her picture into my Bible at the opening: Rejoice with those who rejoice, and weep with those who weep. Romans 12:15 Olive and I have done lots ... View Post

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Time for Godly Examples

7 Oct

Every fall I walk by the tall asters planted by our driveway and remember the day Delia Leddy dug a wild clump of them from a field beside her house and gave them to me. Delia was the sweet mother of a dear friend. Though she has long been gone from the earth her faithfulness and servant heart is an ... View Post

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Tailor Made

5 Oct

When I was growing up, many women made their own clothes and their children's clothes, especially their daughter's dresses. Mother not only made her clothes and mine, she also made dresses for many others in her home-based dressmaking business. Many would have described my mother as ... View Post

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Her Teaching Still Talks to Him

1 Oct

My daddy's first cousin, Kenneth Wayne Head, is faithful to email several of us cousins. He keeps us up on the family news of the descendants of my great-grandparents, Jim and Cora Head. I showed you this photograph of Mama Head back in July. That's Mama Head on the right with my Daddy as a baby and ... View Post

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Pen Pals, Language Arts, and Reaching Out to Lonely People

30 Sep

I admire my friend Olive for so many reasons. I recently learned something new about her that increased my admiration even more. Olive has established a sweet relationship with the grandfather of her son-in-law. This elderly gentlemen lives with Olive's son-in-law's parents. He is a widower and a ... View Post

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Happy Labor Day, 2020

7 Sep

Every day is a day to be grateful. Today is an especially good day to be grateful for work -- the work others do to benefit us and the work God gives us to do, for example: Loved ones to serve. Agricultural workers who grow our food. Business owners who provide jobs. Officials who do their jobs ... View Post

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