Tag: God
Posted on June 12, 2015
by Paris Renae
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If laughter is the best medicine, then twelve ladies in my neighborhood must be the healthiest around. Once a month we get together and play a silly dice game called bunko. It doesn’t take any strategy or effort – so we throw dice… Continue Reading “Dice & Laughter…”
Category: UncategorizedTags: bunko, creation, dessert, friend, frown, God, health, heaven, husband, Jesus, joke, joy, laughter, love, medicine, neighbor, pretty, smile, world, wrinkles
Posted on May 29, 2015
by Paris Renae
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Lots of flowers in pots and a raised bed garden means…lots of watering. To garden like this means you’ve really got to love it – those little yellow marigold skirts and petunia faces are thirsty. My love part: water. Their love part: looking… Continue Reading “Thirsty Love…”
Category: UncategorizedTags: children, fatigue, flower, friend, friendship, garden, God, houseplant, husband, marriage, prayer, relationship, vegetable, wife, worry
Posted on May 22, 2015
by Paris Renae
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My earliest memory is feeling like the sand was running out from under my feet and the dizzy feeling like I might topple over. I was fortunate enough to live about thirty minutes from the white silver sands of Florida’s panhandle when I… Continue Reading “Sandy Toes…”
Category: UncategorizedTags: America, beach, children, cross, Father, Florida, freedom, friend, God, grateful, Jesus, memorial, Memorial Day, memory, mother, sand, soldier, soul, starfish, stars, U.S.A.
Posted on April 24, 2015
by Paris Renae
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Over the last several years many things have happened that I’ve had no control over – so when the little annoyances of life would crop up I found myself saying ‘Whatever’ – sometimes with an exclamation point, sometimes this with a sigh… While it was… Continue Reading “Whatever…”
Category: UncategorizedTags: Bible, child, control, creation, excellent, friend, God, health, husband, Jesus, love, marathon, money, mother, phrases, time, whatever, wife
Posted on April 10, 2015
by Paris Renae
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In the garden department I spotted an ‘all in one’ plant, a combination of several small flowering beauties that grow well together. The dangler on the collection said ‘it’s small now, but put in a large container and watch fill it out and give beauty for months to come’.… Continue Reading “Squishing Worms…”
Category: UncategorizedTags: beauty, bread, brocolli, butter, cookies, creation, eating, flowers, food, gardening, God, heaven, ice cream, morning, spinach, tomatoes, worms, zuchinni
Posted on April 3, 2015
by Paris Renae
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Our good friend and pastor in California recalled the following story when his oldest daughter was six… His wife couldn’t pick her up from school and had asked Larry to get her. Realizing he was running late he got over to the school… Continue Reading “Resurrection…”
Category: UncategorizedTags: blessed, California, celebration, church, classroom, daughter, death, Easter, eternity, God, hands, history, Jesus, power, promise, resurrection, school, singing, thankful, tradition
Posted on March 27, 2015
by Paris Renae
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Aprons are making a comeback, at least I think they are. I see them in gift stores, home stores, clothing stores, everywhere… My grandmother, better known as Nanny, always had an apron on – but she always had a dress on too. While… Continue Reading “Aprons…”
Category: UncategorizedTags: aprons, cookies, cooking, daughters, dresses, gifts, God, grandmothers, history, homemade, husband, kitchen, mother
Posted on March 13, 2015
by Paris Renae
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Eighteen years ago I dug up a tiny sapling from beneath the huge tree in our front yard. I went to the back yard and gauged where I thought it should go (seriously I thought it was way far from the deck). Today it has reached that maturity… Continue Reading “Seeds of…”
Category: UncategorizedTags: faith, gardening, God, love, maturity, mother, patience, plant, problems, seeds, share, trees, wisdom, worry
Posted on February 20, 2015
by Paris Renae
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I haven’t met anyone who doesn’t like remembering — remembering their childhood, remembering crazy things they did, remembering a loved one, remembering God’s faithfulness, remembering how things used to be… It is fun to watch the animated faces as people recall and often… Continue Reading “the Violas are back…”
Category: UncategorizedTags: childhood, dog, extraordinary, faithful, Florida, flowers, friend, Friends, gardening, God, happiness, hurricane, innocence, joy, memories, mom, ordinary, play, pregnancy, senior, stories
Posted on January 23, 2015
by Paris Renae
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Don’t we all wish we could retire (no matter what age we are 26 or 56) and just wander… I love east Tennessee and the times I’ve been able to spend there always find me wandering… Wandering along a hiking trail, beside the… Continue Reading “Wander or Wonder?”
Category: UncategorizedTags: antique, beach, childhood, creation, God, invention, praise, retirement, Tennessee, travel, wander, wonder, wonderful
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