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Thanks Be to God, Alleluia!
Dear Lord,Thank You for all the good gifts in my life. Thanks for the sunshine and the rain. Thanks for the people to love and cars and pets and houses and computers and all the fun things that my...
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Seven Quick Takes, Eastertide
Jennifer Fulwiler hosts this meme. Go around visiting the rest.1. Lent is Over! As I was driving home from Q on Easter and really sleepy, I knew I needed something to wake me up. I turned on the...
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So once upon a time a long, long time ago my dearest friend called me up on a winter's evening and screamed--We met the guy you're going to marry! The royal "we" was she and her roommate, my dearest...
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Lost and Found
When I went up to my mom's place in Quincy at the beginning of Lent I had a mishap with the security door and stuff flew out of my open bag all over the lobby floor. I hastily stuffed everything back...
View ArticleOver Exposed
How many of you post on Youtube? Raise your hands, don't be shy now. Post on Youtube, anyone? Probably lots of you do because you aren't going to be 60 this year. But I didn't until last Friday...
View ArticleDrinking More Deeply
On Good Friday my hubby and I began the Chaplet of Divine Mercy Novena. As Novena's go it is short and sweet. We often fit the day's prayers in at bedtime. I am not normally a big Chaplet fan. It...
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Thank You, Lord
Dear Lord,Thanks for the beauty of the spring. When I reflect on the beauty of the redbuds against the blue sky, I can see how perfect and beautiful Your plan for creation is. I praise You and I thank...
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7 QTs
Jennifer Fulwiler and her new baby boy are hosting this meme. Prayers for the new little boy who was admitted to NICU for some problems in breathing!1. My husband had a birthday this past weekend. We...
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Goin' to the Lake!
I'm going to the Lake of the O's to the librarian's conference. The last time I was at this conference was 2009. And while you may like to picture a bunch of pruny old ladies in buns, and we are more...
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Ides of April
April 15th is the average last frost day of the year around these parts. Sometimes we have a later frost, but we all agree to really complain about it if we do. Sometimes we have an early spring and...
View ArticleSalvation Belongs to God
Let me start by saying--I don't have the answers, I have a lot of questions. I have suppositions and judgments but no answers. Who will be saved?If everybody is saved because God is love, then does...
View ArticleRevenge
I don't watch a lot of television these days. I was a child of the 60s and I watched it all from My Mother the Car to Mister Ed and Ed Sullivan.....I watched them all. But over the years either...
View ArticleI Exalt Thee
Dear Lord,Thank you for all the pain that I didn't thank You for at the time. Thank You for those crosses. Sometimes I get a glimpse of salvation in the midst of the pain or in the reflection on it...
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Seven Quick Takes
Jennifer Fulwiler hosts this meme. Go around and visit the rest.1. Last Friday was declared "Librarian Appreciation Day" at my school. I was greeted by a poster featuring my photo on the door to the...
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Librarians at the Lake
Last Sunday I went to Lake of the Ozarks to the Missouri School Librarians Conference. It is a nice spring weekend/ early week trip. It is fun to gather with other people who talk databases and...
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Sunday Prayers
Lord, I wait for You. I wait to hear Your voice. I listen, but the noises of the world drown You out. Lord, help me to hear Your whispers, Your love ever day of my life. Amen
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Spring Progresses
I heard somewhere that I can't recall that spring progresses north 17 miles a day. Despite the melty snowflakes that landed on my car's windshield on Friday morning as I drove to work, spring is...
View ArticleLibrary Ann
Considering all the outright odd names I deal with on overdues, Library Ann would not be such an odd name for a daughter. It would have been a good name for me. I have been a library mouse my whole...
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