Tag: Family
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Visiting Loved Ones
Over the last couple of months we have missed any opportunity to see our family. We have tried to check in on them throughout the months. These two are very special people to our family since we walked through the doors to Fellowship all those years ago. Pastor Dean has always been so welcoming and…
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Misjudging… Depths
Do you ever get into conversations you wish you hadn’t started? Especially when you are driving? No I don’t mean anything to do with iPhones! This is completely about conversations in the car before you decide where you are going to go! Okay I was totally alert I was looking back as I went backwards.…
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You’re writing your autobiography. What’s your opening sentence?-Writing Prompt
“There is nothing sweeter in a day than when I can smile from seeing one of God’s Kisses that He allows me to see when one full circle of a story is being fulfilled.” Sometimes I wonder if anyone else can see the stories I see. Surely I can’t be the only one. Believers all…
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Evening Thoughts
For a second time I got to church before Sunday School started. It’s amazing. However, I did not want to get up this morning. I have gone to bed only to get into my room and sit on my bed doing more cross-stitch until shy of midnight. I have another deadline and want to get…
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Residual Thoughts On… Babies!
Sunday afternoon Dad and I assume all his sisters got a text. A baby would be visiting my Grandma that day. We didn’t get there at the designated time and it was meant to be a strictly family gathering; but we got to see him. Since my cousin’s wife works where Grandma lives everyone knows…
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Cravings… for Subway
Earlier this month was the milestone that I once held firm on remembering with a subway sandwich. Grandpa Freddy made Chicken Teriyaki one of our favorite sandwiches and the ‘Sweet Onion Sauce’ a favored sauce. This year I didn’t continue that in memoriam of him until today. All month long I have craved anything really…
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Describe a phase in life that was difficult to say goodbye to.-Writing Prompt
Saying goodbye to being a Farming Family was difficult. This year marks 7 years it still doesn’t seem possible. I thought I would always be the Farmer’s Daughter and even hoped to be a Farmer’s Wife at times. Our family was closer than ever when we worked together. We are all strung out doing different…
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A Surprise
My emotions are still too high to talk about this morning so I will talk about yesterday. My mom’s older brother and wife came up to check on some things and chat. When they came in I was literally finishing my writing prompt. So I did hear Uncle Floyd’s here, but I was trying to…
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What advice would you give to your teenage self?-Writing Prompt
My teenage years were intense. We moved from Bethel Baptist to Fellowship the year I turned a teenager. Music was my life and I very briefly experienced being a solo singer as a teenager at Bethel Baptist and was excited to do more, but at that time there was some conflict. Then we walked up…
Jewells of Thought 