I love this quote: “Lord, you’ve given me so much. I ask You for one more thing: a heart of gratitude.” This week’s word is Gratitude. This is my favorite story on gratitude: Vance Gill, my guitar-playing Dry Creek friend (who I always remind that he’s only one vowel away from being famous) shared this: “I was working …
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Tough or Hard- The Choice is Yours
Tough or Hard—The Choice is Yours In front of me are three objects: a hammer, a brick, and a flat piece of leather. They make for a wonderful lesson we all can learn from. It’s amazing observing folks as they go through difficult times. Periods of trial, adversity, and sadness distill out what is really inside people. …
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Down in the Well “Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding…” Proverbs 3:4 My neighbor Dudley Mercer tells a story from his Dry Creek childhood. His family farm had a 35-foot deep well on which they relied for all of their water needs. Dudley’s family also had a problem: one …
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