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Best Friends Show Up for the Surprises
Lynn Berna
Devotions
Monday, May 19, 2025 Hebrews 6:10 “God is not unjust; He will not forget your work and the love you have shown Him as you have helped His people and continue to help Him.” Life has brought some hard challenges from time to time, but, all along the way I have relied on God to get me through and The Living, Loving God, has done that. As I have c...
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Need Patience
Carolyn Hayes
Devotions
Just need more patience. God's grace is a gift and I'm so thankful. He will give me the strength and patience to deal with a tiny kitten. Right? I never realized how many difficult situations a tiny kitten can get into, ie caught in an endtable drawer, playing with pellet litter and putting it in her mouth (so afraid she'll digest one and wind up n...
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Mother's Day 101
Lynn Berna
Devotions
Monday, May 12, 2025 Ephesians 4:32 “Instead be kind to each other, tender-hearted, forgiving one another, just as God has forgiven you because you belong to Christ.” If you’re a mom or grandmother reading this, may I be the first to congratulate you for surviving another Mother’s Day.  Since it was the Mother’s Day Weekend, my husband and I d...
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Need More Energy?
Carolyn Hayes
Devotions
Sometimes I feel so tired and during one of these times I came across several scriptures that I read that's helped. I know there are so many people going through much more difficulty and needs to read these and seek out more verses of help in the Bible.  Praying for you all needing more strength.  
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Truth Even Sweeter Than A Cookie Bar
Lynn Berna
Devotions
Monday, May 5, 2025 “And this is how we know He lives in us:  we know it by The Spirit He gave us.”  I John 3:24b NIV As I enjoy dunking a cookie bar in my coffee, I hope this day finds you rested and aware of the certainty of God’s presence. My daughter blessed me with this beautifully decorated treat. There is nothing like the joy of ha...
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My Playlist
Carolyn Hayes
Devotions
1 John 1:7 “But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin.”  Harbor Lights…it’s on my playlist. I love that song by the Platters. It’s the only song I know that starts out with the sound effect of a foghorn and a ship’s bell. I hear it ab...
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Resilience
Lynn Berna
Devotions
Monday, April 28, 2025 Matthew 6:26 NIV“Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap, or store away in barns, and yet your Heavenly Father feeds them.  Are you not much more valuable than they?” My husband made me coffee and as I enjoyed taking sips, lo and behold the largest of woodpeckers landed on our bird feeder. He was really enj...
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Thank You, Boojee
Carolyn Hayes
Devotions
“A righteous man has kind regard for the life of his animal…” Proverbs 12:10 Yes, I write a devotional every Friday. I have decided just to subject my devotions after what is going on in my life. This past week, I had to put our precious cat Boojee down. Words cannot be expressed about how I feel. Now is not the time to write my story about Boojee....
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Good, Good Father
Lynn Berna
Devotions
Monday, April 21, 2025Luke 24:45-47 “Then He opened their minds so they could understand the scriptures. He told them, “This is what is written: The Messiah will suffer and rise from the dead on the third day, and repentance for the forgiveness of sins will be preached in His name to all nations,”Jesus changes everything and makes all things beauti...
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In the Pink
Lynn Berna
Devotions
Monday, April 14, 2025John 13:12. “The next day the great crowd that had come for the festival heard that Jesus was on His way to Jerusalem.  They took palm branches and went out to meet Him, shouting, Hosanna!  Blessed is He who comes in the name of The Lord.” Pondering the words being sung as I drank my morning coffee, and listened to t...
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Friendship Friday
Carolyn Hayes
Devotions
Proverbs 27:9 AMP"Oil and perfume make the heart glad; So does the sweetness of a friend’s counsel that comes from the heart." Today is "Friendship Friday".  My friend Brenda gave me this graphic of a teacup with "treasured friend" that she made into a refrigerator magnet. What a great friend she has been over the past 50 plus years. She's alw...
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Tying Shoes
Lynn Berna
Devotions
Monday, April 7, 2025 I John 3:16a NIV “This is how we know what love is:  Jesus Christ laid down His life for us.” Jesus led the way for us to follow. Serving and giving to others is the most satisfying way to live life. In The Bible in Acts 20:35b Jesus says, “It is more blessed to give than to receive.” Giving to others, even when...
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Helping One Another
Carolyn Hayes
Devotions
Here is our Scripture for today. May I also recommend purchasing our book on Amazon.com Lots of devotions and pages to color for a relaxing time along with your morning coffee or tea. Direct link is on the main page of our blog.            
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Blessed by the Spring
Lynn Berna
Devotions
March 31, 2025 Acts 14:17 NIV “Yet He has not left Himself without testimony: He has shown kindness by giving you rain from heaven and crops in their seasons; He provides you with plenty of food and fills your heart with joy.”  God is faithful even if the winter is long and cold. Spring is worth the wait when the weekend becomes pleasant enoug...
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Days of Our Lives
Carolyn Hayes
Devotions
I used to be a great fan of soap operas. Thank God I am not anymore. My favorite soap was "Days of Our Lives". I can still hear Macdonald Carey, "Like sand in an hour glass, so are the days of our lives!" It is interesting. I found that a person sleeps an average of 2,920 hours per year, 240 hours a year eating, 1,801 hours a year working (that's o...
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The Gift
Lynn Berna
Devotions
Monday, March 24, 2025 Psalms 50:1-2 “The Mighty One, God, The Lord, speaks and summons the earth from the rising of the sun to where it sets. From Zion, perfect in beauty God shines forth.” While it does not feel like it, spring is here. That old adage of when spring comes in like a lion it goes out like a lamb will hopefully ring true.  This...
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A Lemon Maybe God's Most Perfect Fruit
Carolyn Hayes
Devotions
"Here on earth you will have many trials and sorrows. But take heart, because I have overcome the world." John 16:33 NLT Guess we all can expect some sour lemons in life. Enough lemons for the making of great pitchers of lemonade. So refreshing to the body and soul.  The proverb “When life gives you lemons, make lemonade” is understood to have...
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Spotlight on Religious Freedom
Lynn Berna
Devotions
March 17, 2025Psalm 119:86 “All Your commands are trustworthy; help me, for I am persecuted without cause.” Warm coffee to warm the heart which prays you are safe and certain that God is with you. A spotlight has been shone on the most persecuted religion after the slaughter of Christians in Syria last week, and before that seventy-five behead...
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A Spoonful of Medicine
Carolyn Hayes
Devotions
“A spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down…the medicine go down, the medicine go down…just a spoonful of medicine helps the medicine go down in a most delightful way!” Such a cute song from Mary Poppins! I loved that movie. It was so good and happy, made me laugh! Laughter is good medicine! Another verse of this Julie Andrew’s song was about h...
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Opportunity to Bless
Lynn Berna
Devotions
Monday, March 10, 2025 Deuteronomy 8:18 “But remember The Lord your God, for it is He who gives you the ability to produce wealth.” It was inspiring to hear about our local church breaking a record in  donating canned goods to restock the Church’s pantry.  This provides so much ministry opportunity to the community. May it speak love into...
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