Tag: history
Posted on December 18, 2018
by Paris Renae
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Does waiting drive you crazy? Children are counting down days til Christmas. Adults count days til the next big game, movie sequel, retirement – or you fill in the blank with your ‘can’t wait’ list. At the birth of Jesus the world had been…
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Category: featuredTags: adults, amaze, angel, anxious, authority, children, Christmas, control, creation, forever, God, good, history, homeless, Jesus, king, lottery, love, Messiah, news, perfect, power, retirement, stranger, time, timing, vacation, value, world
Posted on November 8, 2016
by Paris Renae
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Regardless of the outcome of today’s election in America, there is only One who is in control. As a people we are where we are mostly out of neglect. Neglecting to incline our hearts to a God who is sovereign over every nation. “For…
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Category: featuredTags: abortion, ambition, America, authority, corruption, creation, earth, elections, equality, freedom, God, government, happiness, history, Jesus, life, love, mystery, nation, nature, power, prison, ruler, selfish, serve, slaves, soul, taxation
Posted on November 6, 2015
by Paris Renae
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Hard to believe we are approaching our all American Day of Thanksgiving. One day we set aside to be grateful… I can’t help but wonder where we would be as a nation if everyday we were grateful for just one thing. So blessed and…
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Category: UncategorizedTags: abundance, America, Appalachia, best seller, Bible, blessings, Christian, focus, forgiveness, God, heritage, history, Jesus, museum, thankful, Thanks, Thanksgiving, USA
Posted on July 10, 2015
by Paris Renae
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A lot can be learned from a thirteen year old… They like to use the word ‘so’ – a lot. ‘So, grandma, how did you and grandpa meet?’ My story made him smile wide and relax in his seat. (So, I guess I’m a…
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Category: UncategorizedTags: adventure, alcohol, food, fun, God, grandparent, history, Jesus, jokes, lessons, memory, metabolism, mustache, story, teenager, vacation, weight
Posted on April 17, 2015
by Paris Renae
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Who doesn’t like walking down to the mailbox? Maybe yours is by your door and you don’t have to go far – or maybe yours is grouped with others and so sometimes its a meeting place… I think the postal carrier smiles whenever she/he comes…
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Category: UncategorizedTags: anniversary, birthday, card, email, friend, gift, graduate, history, husband, jazz, letter, love, mail, neighbor, pray, pretty, sick, smile, stamps, text, thank you, verse
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…
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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…
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Category: UncategorizedTags: aprons, cookies, cooking, daughters, dresses, gifts, God, grandmothers, history, homemade, husband, kitchen, mother
Posted on February 27, 2015
by Paris Renae
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I have a collection… A little unusual as the use for these originally was to blow your nose… My collection started when my Nanny, a.k.a. grandmother, died and I was sent a few of her things. Some were doilies she had crocheted and…
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Category: UncategorizedTags: 20th century, antique, collectible, collection, daughter, disposable, grandchildren, grandmother, hand me downs, history, mother, Renaissance, stories
Posted on July 4, 2014
by Paris Renae
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Today is my favorite holiday – I’ve often been asked why… Could be that I love summertime and it’s the true summer holiday. Could be that it usually means barbeques and our children. Could be I love fireworks… I was blessed with great…
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Category: UncategorizedTags: 4th, Abraham, America, American, barbeque, Bless, blessed, Constitution, country, courage, Delaration, Federalist, fireworks, God, history, holiday, Independence, July, Lincoln, pride, sacrifice, summertime
Posted on March 28, 2014
by Paris Renae
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Eyes closed, head back, breeze enveloping me – I hear it even now: creak…creak. The sound of the porch swing, the chirps of the crickets and frogs. It’s how time used to be whiled away – on a front porch when day’s work was…
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Category: UncategorizedTags: family, first, history, memories, neighbors, porch, season, seasons, stories, swing, time
