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I was born on Valentine\’s Day,my mama\’s pride and joy.She was a child of 14 years;I was her real-life toy.She could have given me awayand gone back to her childhood world.But we stuck togetherand raised each other;my mama and me–her Valentine girl.

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I love my son. He\’s just a special guy, extremely intelligent, and loves God with all his heart. In my opinion, he and my husband are two of the smartest guys I have ever known. Josh is involved in a theology discussion board. He freely shares his beliefs, quite often the only person with his…

In past weeks, on one of the discussion boards I frequent, we discussed in great detail one day what would happen to the person who dared to ever hurt one of our children or grandchildren. We held back no contempt for such a one who would commit a heinous crime against a family member, nor…

Recently I was on a discussion board, and we were chatting back and forth about churches in general. It seemed the consensus among most of the folks was that churches are beginning to fall away from our original calling–to glorify God with our lives and lead others to know the Savior, Jesus Christ. The discussion…

Life comes at you fast sometimes. Just yesterday we lost two church members. They had both been ill for some time. The lady who died, Lois, was very active in the nursery ministry at church. When we first started attending the church, she was in the nursery every Sunday. Our grandson Nate loved her. About…

“Grandma, can I hold you?”“Sure, baby, climb up here on my lap, and you can hold me as long as you want. Mmmm, I love for my little buddy to hold his grandma.”…“Grandma?”“Yes, sweetie?”“What do you want to be when you grow up?”“Hmm, let’s see. I think, hmm, I think I want to be a…

My friend and co-worker said to me today, “Isn’t it strange that someone so involved in the church has so many difficulties in their life?” She was talking about me. I had just finished a tirade about the abuses of one of my family members against the rest of their family. I was tired and…

In early fall of that year, one phone call and two words changed our lives forever. The storm clouds that had been building in our lives for the past two years had finally burst and nothing would ever again be the same. Our precious child, the \”sparkle\” in the family, was pregnant. This dear child…