Author: Garnetjewel
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My Home State Losing Moral Authority
Unfortunately life is not done in a petri dish. I want to believe my fellow Hoosiers are good morally calibrated people, experience has taught us even the reddest state or conservative state is not immune to dumb decision making from lawmakers or even our Education department. Recently before Thanksgiving a headline came out regarding an…
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Share five things you’re good at.-Writing Prompt
This sounds a lot like boasting and God doesn’t like those who proudly boast for vanity. Whether I am good at them or not they are things I enjoy doing for the love of serving others by God’s loving command. Love one another as I have loved you. My skills or ratings are in the…
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After Service Thoughts
The first Sunday of December and it was Communion Day. For once even by myself I got some Christmas Cards passed out today. This has never happened before. Doing them this way feels different, but I still love making them and passing them out to friends and family. During the congregational singing memories flooded my…
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Are you more of a night or morning person?-Writing Prompt
All summer long Mom and I got up early to walk and start off our day before 8 or 9 in the morning. It was encouraging to do so and allowed us to get more done when we were able to stick to that routine. We did really well most days and weeks. However it’s…
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The Weekends & Soup
For a long time we had a routine with my niece. Then it seemed overnight someone else started making decisions leaving us out of my nieces, every other weekend time, with her. She likes being with Daddy so Friday was our night with her and then Saturday’s were and most of Sundays were with Daddy.…
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First Day of Discussion
Wow! It’s actually here the first day of our Book Discussion. Angela Hunt, one of my favorite authors is hosting an online discussion of her newest book. It is a devotion, “Star of Wonder” covers the span of the 25 days of Christmas. This could not have come at a better time for me. My…
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What are your feelings about eating meat?-Writing Prompt
Wow my feelings about meat this is actually a question! As long as the animal is healthy the food it produces should be good. God used lambs often in the Bible to show how good it is to eat meat. Israel specifically had to eat while fully dressed to leave Egypt that last night in…
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The Sullivan VFW Update
Not long ago I gave an update on some developing work details just west of where I live. Sullivan County is our County Seat so we spend a decent amount of time there. Plus our Tire Guy is literally right next to this area that got pummeled at the southern end of the City. Unfortunately…
Jewells of Thought 