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Spreading the fragrance of God's grace everywhere

What I Saw Today

Every day is a new day of discovery! God’s world, both physical and spiritual, is filled with wonder. Come explore God’s world with me as I see it for the first time.

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10 Ways to Live Among Those who Don’t Share Your Faith

When Others Don't See What You See: 10 Ways to Live Among Those Who Don't Share Your Faith

What is it like to be the only Christian in a non-Christian environment?

A new Christ follower came to our house, distressed. “Sometimes I feel like I’m going to explode if I don’t get away,” he told me. Family members were ambivalent at best and antagonistic at worst to his newfound faith. They told him church was a waste of time and questioned the number of hours and the distance he traveled in order to go to an out-of-town meeting. “I don’t want to go home,” he confided “and walk right back into it.”

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COVID19 Shutdown: How to Minimize the Stress of the Unknown

COVID-19 Shutdown: Facing the Unkown

Travel is always easier when you take the trip with someone who’s been there before. That’s the part of the COVID19 shutdown and the ensuing economic decline that has rattled so many people. We’ve never been down this road before. We have no vaccine for COVID19. There’s a reason it’s called a novel virus. Novel means new and boy howdy, this one’s so new, it caught an entire medical community with moisture behind their ears.

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Bird Watching: What I Saw Today – by Karen Wingate

I’ve discovered birds!

yellow finches - photo by Karen Wingate
yellow finches – photo by Karen Wingate

Before the surgery that gave me Better Than Ever vision, I never understood bird watching. Why get so excited over something you can’t see? I didn’t realize other people could see birds just fine, thank you. After my surgery, the wonderful world of bird watching unfolded, and I’m moving quickly toward fanhood. I still can’t see a lot of detail but I can see motion, a flash of color, and, if I use my assistive technology spyglass, I can see in full detail a bird on the ground.

What have I found so wonderful about bird watching?

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"But thanks be to God, who always leads us in triumphal procession in Christ and through us spreads everywhere the fragrance of the knowledge of him."
- 2 Corinthians 2:14