Barbara Smith

Kismet

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

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

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

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 25:04 — 57.4MB)Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Amazon Music | Android | Pandora | iHeartRadio | Gaana | TuneIn | RSS | MoreThe more we take of ourselves and the members of the body, the easier it is for our bodies to heal themselves. The body

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Making a Splash

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

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

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 24:44 — 56.6MB)Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Amazon Music | Android | Pandora | iHeartRadio | Gaana | TuneIn | RSS | MoreThough we may talk a good talk, actions speak louder than words. Walking the walk of a Christian is what will draw people to

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What Bugs God – Part II

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

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 24:34 — 56.2MB)Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Amazon Music | Android | Pandora | iHeartRadio | Gaana | TuneIn | RSS | MoreWe must stay alert spiritually, to be able to decern truth from a lie, light from darkness, and the real from the counterfeit.

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Meaningful Communication

There was a quote from the 1942 Disney Animated Production movie, “Bambi”, that was repeated often in our home, while raising four daughters. The quote was brought to us by ‘Thumper’ the fictional, animated rabbit, who said, “If you can’t say something nice, don’t say nothing at all.” It is hard to imagine that this

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