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We’ve been given another year…
What shall we do with it? I am not a big New Years resolutions person, but I certainly enjoy looking to the future and thinking through the big things in life – how I spend my time, what I’m truly committed to doing with my days, what is God asking me to do that maybe…
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Investments
I’m sure your mind is jumping to finances as you read the title of this blog. And without doubt, our minds are understandably drawn to investments as we consider retirement budgets and how to make the most of the funds we have to see us through this season. In fact, my husband and I are…
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Behind you…or ahead of you?
Words create pictures and give meaning to life in many ways. I’m often caught off guard as I read lines in a novel which impact me, or an idea in a devotional I’m reading is so well articulated I have to stop and ponder what I truly believe. Recently, a daily devotion book I read…
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UNLEASHED
“You have no idea what you have unleashed.” Erika Kirk I inadvertently watched most of Erika Kirk’s address to the nation on Friday night after her husband’s tragic death. She was articulate and passionate in the way she honored him and remembered him. She spoke life-giving words to his mission, to his movement and…
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Missed Opportunities
Faithful servants never retire. You can retire from your career, but you will never retire from serving God. – Rick Warren I was recently in the city of Euskirchen, Germany, for a leadership team gathering for the European organization I work with. I’ve never been there and one of my first thoughts was that we needed…
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The Benefits of Retirement
I ask good friends if I can post a writing they share with me. Here is one from a dear friend of over 40 years as she reflects on her retirement. Enjoy Ahhh, retirement, at long last – I’ll have so much time to do all the things I’ve wanted to do but never managed…
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Back into the Groove…or not
I’ve been away from my computer for almost a month – 2 weeks of travel with our entire family of 13, an added week on the road for us after our sons and their families flew home, and a few more days of recovery for weary grandparents traveling with grandchildren ages 5-21! We are rarely…
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Sidelined
It’s a Sunday night in June before I head out before dawn Monday morning to catch a flight to Norway…one of multiple trips I continue to make to Europe every year to work with a European organization that serves the nations with a church planting process that is actually working! It’s a work I cherish,…
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Ignitable!!!
I read a devotional recently that used this word very effectively. I had oddly thought I needed to read something radically inspirational that particular morning because I was feeling somewhat “épuisée” as the French would say – just completely spent after days and days of activity. (For some reason the French word épuisée carries more…
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