Category: American Heritage
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Wow! What A Sunday!
The Lord truly… works… in mysterious ways. Today was a culmination of literally about 9 months of signs from God to wake me up. The amount of intricate working the Lord does in one’s heart and mind for His glory is incredible. Honestly… I am still digesting the events of my day. Yesterday was a…
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A Couple’s Longing and a Family Prayer…
Oh Lord, Your timing is everything… we see this in scripture how time adds to the depth to a family’s story. The Alsman Family is absolutely rejoicing today and just a bit ago a proud Papa and Papaw, my Uncle, just called us with some exciting news. Thank you Lord, for this incredible and personal…
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August Letters
Funny how I get started on something and then something even bigger comes out of it. When I originally started this topic of American Letters, different ideas came to mind. I didn’t realize how many ways I could loosely use the term letter. It can mean a text, letter or card. On a bit of…
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Inclusive
This morning a commercial for a playground used a form of this word. Does anyone else get tired of the overzealous use of this word? I believe most of us do provide such an inclusive environment, America isn’t called the modern day melting pot for no reason. In school it was the beauty of what…
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Infested News
Yesterday was a day of digesting some truth. My family grew up without cable. Going on vacations and then college were the only times I watched cable ever in my life. In the last few years literally since Trump became President watching the news has become a chore. Right before Covid happened I was beginning…
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Summer School
So my group’s first choice of Country Kazakhstan was out. I think Mr. Gee just assigned us our Country to investigate. A few weeks ago as I was thinking about my outline for this article, Kazakhstan was actually in the news. Not necessarily good news if I remember correctly. Ironic how I didn’t think of…
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Letters of 1776
In one day several letters were penned by American leaders in the American Colonies. More than 5 letters were written on the 20th of this month back in 1776. I get goosebumps knowing more than one of my ancestors received such a letter from one of these impressive 18th Century leaders. A month earlier on…
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Family Growing Together
Just as my Dad’s family was ingrained into a local congregation so was my Mom’s family. In fact there was an old building right beside the Church which was the one-room school house. My mom remembers when it was torn down and wishes they had done more to stop that from happening. Life happens though…
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Headline From ‘The Federalist’
Conservative Headlines When I saw this headline I had to look further. Then when I saw that some of the information in this article came from people living in Massachusetts my intrigue was garnered more. Ever since Bryan disclosed his home state to me I have this innate need to know what’s going on in…
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Family Reunion: A Prayer of Thanks For Family Time
Thank you Lord, for our annual Bishop Family Sunday Afternoon gathering yesterday. Sometimes these feel stressful and exhausting. On Saturday I looked through some of my grandma’s photo albums. There were two old articles about both sides of the family the Lesters and the Bishops having Reunions for 44 years one on side and just…
Jewells of Thought 