Category Archives: Multitudes on Monday

So What Am I Thankful For?

The past few days I’ve really been struggling with attitude. Not the children’s but mine. Although I know that I should be thankful and that I have many things to praise God for I haven’t been able to force those … Continue reading

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The Manifold Gifts of God

Yesterday at church at slipped up to the choir to add my voice to the anthem and then slipped back to the pew to sit with the children and S. On my way back through the ambulatory (the passage behind … Continue reading

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Load Off Of My Mind

I know, I know I’ve done it again- disappeared for several weeks with no explanation. Bad blogging…but that’s how it goes sometimes. I simply haven’t had anything to say, or if I did I had too many other things going … Continue reading

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Celebration and Healing

“As celebration leads to healing, healing leads back to celebration. It is all God’s work; and those who find themselves called to it must, quite simply, ‘serve God and be cheerful’.” N. T. Wright , For All God’s Worth pg … Continue reading

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Otters

The other day I made the mistake of saying something about how W goes down the stairs like an otter going down a mud-slide. This of course triggered a round of questions from F and Su and F remembered that … Continue reading

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Aftermath

Here I am again: no post on Saturday due to the hurricane making the power flicker, and no post Sunday or Monday because I just couldn’t get my creative juices flowing enough to write. I couldn’t really even think of … Continue reading

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Worship

Rereading Tom Wright For All God’s Worth this week… slowly… instead of in a gulp the way I read it last time….. A few quotes to ponder from the first chapter: Worship is nothing more nor less than love on … Continue reading

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Boots for Everyone

Yesterday it finally rained. We’ve gone for weeks with no rain to speak of now finally we had a rainy day and it looks like we’ll have one today too. Of course after church and naps the children were bursting … Continue reading

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Monday Beginnings

Ah Monday…The beginning of the week and the day that sets the tone for the rest of the week. Have a good day today and the week will probably go well. Get off schedule today and I’ll probably never catch … Continue reading

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I lift My Heart

I lift my heart today in praise To Him who loves me so, Whose mercy brightens All my days, and makes my cup o’erflow! (Carrie Breck) Today my heart is lifted up because: the weather is marginally cooler the children … Continue reading

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