Author: Garnetjewel
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Where History Comes To Life In Song
While looking through past articles, one intriguing account stands apart. God used my passions and intertwined them to my surprise. Angela Hunt has a wonderfully created Series of Beauty; all women from the Bible. I tend to immerse myself into each book I read and this series was no different. However, I didn’t share my…
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Calling All Women
The 21st Century was bound to be the reckoning for craziness worldwide with the tech revolution. The past 50 years have seen steps go to absurd heights with phones, cellphones and now to iPhones. Craziness was literally around the corner. The term ‘woke’, brought on such a cautionary tale of businesses and celebrities being caught…
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Writing Prompt
In January 2022 I took a risk and sent my application to DaVita. March 6th was my first day on the job. I look back on that decision with 20/20 vision. I needed to know I could challenge myself from the education I received through my online Medical coding classes. Medical Terminology was my favorite…
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Man and Woman
Perhaps it’s our mid-western values, our common sense principles or the fact that we can actually read that it is our adherence to conservative issues we observe as Christians. The Bible does state specifically that there were males and females. Even in the loading of the animals into the Ark, they were led in by…
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Cyprian
Books. Some can seem magical. There are times that pages out of a book literally take me to the Collosseum of Carthage, where the abrasive sand of the floor can sting my eyes from feeling like I’m in the Proconsul’s balcony seat seeing a ferocious fight. Do you ever feel like that while reading a…
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Writing Prompt
Well I have had moments of inaction thinking that my words wouldn’t help. Sometimes I feel like I am bubbling forth with stories to tell or narrate. It feels weird to say that God has given me a talent for this but honestly and as humbly as I can I have to admit this is…
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Lessons Learned
Why is it that it’s sometimes so difficult to be happy and energized as much as I want to be? Why do we do things for ourselves or for others and feel like it’s a burden? I took a job in a different field out of my wheel-house thinking it would be stable. Yet I…
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The Colonial Fight Then… and Today
Artemus Ward, George Washington, Joseph Reed, Nathanael Greene and Henry Knox: these are a very short list of the countless names imprinted on our American story. Do you know each name and what each one of them gave and did for us to have our Freedoms today. Last night I was blown away by the…
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Legendary Commanders of 1776
What is the primary necessity for the Commander of a newly forming entity, daring to become an Army? Experience as a soldier? Almost more importantly, when the bullets are flying, how will he react? Have you ever heard of General Artemus Ward? Unfortunately, this Harvard grad and battle-tried soldier has slipped through the cracks of…
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We are A Special Miracle
American History, what does this phrase make you think or feel? Do these words bubble up, old, boredom, not necessary for today? If that is what you think do you know your own history? Do you realize our very existence as Americans is nothing short of absolutely Miraculous? For starters the men who were envisioning…
Jewells of Thought 