View from the sheepfold
CHOOSING GOODNESS
GOODNESS: DOING RIGHT Do you choose to do right? Have you ever known a good person? She seems to do and say the right things at the right time, makes people feel loved. He recognizes need and reaches out to help before you even realize there is a need. Have you ever...
Kindness – Love in Action
Kindness (Gentleness) *KIND – sympathetic, friendly, gentle, tender-hearted, generous, etc. Kindness begins with allowing God’s Spirit to work in and through us. “But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness…” Galatians 5:22 Kindness is...
National Train Day
In 2008, Amtrak created National Train Day to promote riding a train. Although not an official holiday, Amtrak declared it for the Saturday closest to May 10. That's May 7 this year (2022). Trains have played an important role in American history, and they are still...
Patience – Testing Faith
Patience - Testing Faith Do you ever fidget when you have to wait in a long line at a grocery store? How about in a doctor’s office? It seems like you wait forever for the doctor to see you for five or ten minutes. Does your toddler in a highchair cry or bang on the...
Finding Peace
Peace and Tranquility “And you will hear of wars and rumors of wars…For nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. And there will be famines, pestilences, and earthquakes in various places.” (Matthew 24:6,7) How can a person find calmness,...
Fullness of Joy
"You will show me the path of life; In Your presence is fullness of joy; At Your right hand are pleasures forevermore." Psalm 16:11 Where Is Your Joy? When my little granddaughter began to walk, she giggled, and squealed, and waved her arms. She expressed great joy in...
Walk in Love
WALK IN LOVE A lawyer stood up in the crowd one day and challenged Jesus. “Teacher, what shall I do to inherit eternal life?” Jesus referred him back to Scripture, “What is written in the law?” The lawyer knew the answer. “You shall love the Lord your God with all...
How does your garden grow?
Re-Created “Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new.” (2 Corinthians 5:17) Once we receive Jesus Christ as Savior and Lord, our old, sinful nature has been replaced by the new,...
Following Your GPS
The GPS had not been invented yet. We used road maps, or someone's barn, or maybe an unusual tree to direct us. Where I grew up in rural New York, many dirt roads still existed along with family farms. I imagine the roads originally followed old cow paths, deer...
SCONES and SUCCESS
SCONES AND SUCCESS Blueberry scones—yum! I had my first blueberry scone several years ago and loved it. I’m cautious about eating pastries, or even keeping them in the house, because my husband watches his carbs and I watch my weight. However, when I found a recipe...
DNA, ANCESTRY, and ETERNITY
Have you ever wondered about your ancestors, who they were and where they came from? Members of my family have done on-line genealogical research, with interesting results, and they have had personal contact with distant and previously unknown relatives. If it weren’t...
Worship Immanuel
I can only imagine what it's like to walk where Jesus walked or to visit Bethlehem, where Scripture records that He was born over two millennia ago. Today, books, magazines, movies, television and social media take us there virtually, but to be there in person would...
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