Tag: devotional book

• The Little Books Are Here!

  When I was a freshman in high school I went to a national convention in Washington D.C. sponsored by Youth For Christ (YFC). If I remember correctly, there were 10,000 high school kids from all over the country at this convention. The main speaker was Billy Graham. I had heard him speak before in Chicago,…

  Marian

  April 5, 2018

  Book Recommendations, Music, Reflections

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• Progress

  Last week I was at our Christmas Mountain timeshare in Wisconsin Dells again for a 4-day, solitary getaway. I packed heavier than usual this time. It took me 9 trips to bring everything from the car into the condo. I had one small suitcase with a few clothes, 3 briefcases full of books and notebooks,…

  Marian

  May 2, 2017

  Music, Reflections

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• Trying to Remember a Song

  Do you ever have one of those songs that keeps running through your mind, over and over and over again, but you can’t quite remember the whole song? That’s happening to me right now. Actually, the song has been going through my mind for over a week, and I just can’t remember the whole thing.…

  Marian

  March 14, 2017

  Life’s Challenges, Music, Reflections

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• Oh, No…

  I guess I still have more to learn about GRATITUDE – my special word for last year. As I checked into my timeshare condo at Christmas Mountain last week the last thing on my mind was gratitude. First came disappointment. Then anger. Then “what now?” But let me backtrack… I wasn’t even supposed to be…

  Marian

  October 4, 2016

  Life’s Challenges, Personal Retreats, Reflections

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• The Best New Thing since Sliced Bread

  

  I remember the first time I heard that expression. I was living in Chicago and working at Northwest Industries, Inc., the fifth largest corporation in Chicago at the time. Northwest was a diversified holding company with about a dozen companies making products that ranged from tubular steel (as in the Alaska pipeline) to underwear (Fruit…

  Marian

  February 2, 2016

  Book Recommendations, God’s Love, Reflections

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• Why Was I Created?

  Over the last few years I’ve had the practice of starting the day with reading from two or three devotional books by my favorite inspirational writers. This year I’m reading: The Monastic Way by Joan Chittister (a pamphlet that comes monthly, with the readings of each month based on a common theme), Bread for the…

  Marian

  March 10, 2015

  Book Recommendations, Goals, God’s Love, Life’s Challenges, Reflections

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• Dinnertime

  I guess today is a good day to talk about dinnertime. It’s Mardi Gras – Fat Tuesday – a time of feasting the day before beginning a forty-day fast for Lent. Mim and I are planning to go out for a musical feast tonight – an organ recital by Thomas Trotter (a fantastic organist from…

  Marian

  February 17, 2015

  Assisted Living, Book Recommendations, Celebrations, Life’s Challenges, Reflections

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• The Worst Sin of All according to Floey

  My new dog Floey and I are still getting to know each other. Christmas Day will mark the one month anniversary of Floey’s adoption date. Mim and I and all of our 93-year-olds are so happy that she joined our family. Floey loves all of us, but it’s clear that I am her favorite. She…

  Marian

  December 23, 2014

  Christmas, God’s Love, Life’s Challenges, Reflections

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• De-Adult Me, Please

  Remake me as an awe-fascinated primitive, de-adult me so as to wonder like a child … [from Edward Hays, A BOOK OF WONDERS, p. 336] The picture above is my great niece, Katie. I snapped the picture at our family Christmas celebration in 2001. Katie is in high school now. I hope she keeps her sense of awe and wonder forever.…

  Marian

  November 4, 2014

  Life’s Challenges, Reflections

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• What Do I Really Do?

  Last week I heard from some voices in my past thanks to social media. A couple colleagues from the late 1970s-early 1980s when I worked for Northwest Industries in Chicago emailed me through LinkedIn, the professional networking site. Then I heard from a coworker at TDS in Madison where I worked in the mid-1990s, and…

  Marian

  September 16, 2014

  God’s Love, Life’s Challenges, Reflections

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