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Grateful. Thankful. Blessed.

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I am so very grateful (warmly or deeply appreciative of a kindness or benefit) that in this crazy year God has not been absent. In fact, even though 2020 has often been a hard year in which to find things to be thankful (feeling or expressing appreciative gratitude) for, I think most of us are looking harder and seeing things small and large that God has blessed us with during these days of stress … [Read more...]

Wedding Showers . . . and Bells

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Two weeks ago we celebrated our son Kurt's upcoming marriage to his fiance Kellie Fuselier with a wedding shower here in Nashville. A dear friend of mine (waving to you Kim Pressley) hosted the shower and oh, she did such a beautiful job. Don't you just love people who have the gift of hospitality? I mean, everything Kim touches just turns into Magnolia Farms or Southern Living … [Read more...]

Change is the Only Constant in Life

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I like sameness. And routine. But of course life doesn’t let you continue on in your same path indefinitely. In this life, we encounter changes in age, marital status, and parenting. We change homes, cities, and jobs. We even change friends and churches, on occasion. All these seems to prove the truth stated by the Greek philosopher Heraclitus: My husband and I are currently in the midst of … [Read more...]

Bakers Gotta Bake—and a GIVEAWAY!

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We're hosting Thanksgiving at our house this year, and I'm already looking forward to being with family, to playing games, and to preparing (and eating) those delicious foods associated with the holidays. Which means I'm already thinking about food! What's new, huh? Are you a "traditional Thanksgiving dinner" family? Or do you cook something different? Like Mexican food? Or steaks with … [Read more...]

God’s Sense of Humor

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Hi friends, Mike and I celebrated twenty-eight years of marriage this week. Twenty-eight years. We were so young when we married, and we married quickly. We’d only been dating three weeks when Mike proposed, and we were married four months after that. Two months later, I found out we were expecting our first child. Our friends and, to be fully transparent, our families gave our marriage the … [Read more...]

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