Barbara Smith

A Slice of Life

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Kismet

Barbara Smith

Have you ever seen little girls playing, running around with no reservation. They will often begin to twirl, full throttle, no music needed, especially when they have a flowing skirt on. There is just something about this that makes them feel like little princesses. As you watch them, you realize they are ‘dancing as if

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What Bugs God – Part III

Barbara Smith

Let me give a quick refresher of what was covered in the previous articles, “What Bugs God,” Parts I and II. Passivism in general, and more specifically about the kingdom of God, murmuring, complaining, and quarrelling, unfruitfulness, and barrenness, physically and spiritually, and division, were discussed. Sitting back on our laurels, fussing about every little

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Mother May I

Barbara Smith

The character of Mother Goose initiated the genre of nursery rhymes for children, when they were first published by Charles Perrault in 1697; however, the author remains anonymous. It was theorized by Katherin Elwes-Thomas, as being a collection of fairy tales spun by the wife of King Robert II of France, who was called, “Berthe

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Restoration

Barbara Smith

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Making a Splash

Barbara Smith

Though I have never experienced it for myself, there are people who take trips every year to go out to sea to watch the whales and dolphins make that huge splash that they can catch on camera for everyone to see on their social media page. The hope is that this will indicate that they

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Simplify

Barbara Smith

I have always enjoyed learning more vocabulary words and discovering the etymology of them as well. The English language is very fascinating and is a mixture of multiple languages, as are most languages of the world. I can speak, or at least understand, three languages to varying degrees and they are all connected in some

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The Proof is in the Pudding

Barbara Smith

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What Bugs God – Part II

Barbara Smith

I would like to continue with more principles from the lesson series, “What Bugs God?” that I recently came across from my time in Northwest Indiana, as mentioned, that I began sharing in Part I. We discovered firstly that ‘passivism about the Kingdom of God’ really bothers Him, but we should rather have ‘determination and

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Beware of the Light

Barbara Smith

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