A summer road trip delivered our family to the door of the Split Rock Lighthouse in Two Harbors, Minnesota. It’s a beauty, right?! Old lighthouses and their histories fascinate me. I am not a person who typically enjoys museums, yet it is difficult to tear me away from the display boards at a lighthouse museum. […]
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Storing away the Christmas decorations so eagerly placed around the house such a short time ago makes me sigh for two reasons. One, the season comes and goes so fast each year that I wonder if I did all I could to enjoy it. And two, repacking the decor with a caring, organized attitude is almost
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So, it’s coming! Less than four weeks and it will be upon us! Have you flung yourself headlong into the inevitable frenzy of Christmas yet? It is one of the most difficult times of the year for me to maintain a healthy perspective on my to-do list. As soon as Thanksgiving ends, the pressure descends
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“Jesus replied: “‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’ This is the first and greatest commandment.” Matthew 22:37-38 NIV Flipping a 150 pound tractor tire fifty times in a workout was never a line item on my bucket list. Surprisingly, however, this feat
Though you have not seen him, you love him; and even though you do not see him now, you believe in him and are filled with an inexpressible and glorious joy 1 Peter 1:8 NIV Weary from a long car ride, my then nine-year-old daughter lumbered out of the minivan to stretch, while our dog,