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Here's To The Moments
Here’s To The Moments
Photo by Kim Lance (Click image for more of Kim’s work)
Goodness, I love the beach! I saw this photo of Kim Lance’s and it took me right back to my childhood.
My family used to go to the beach once a year, and for me, it was almost better than Christmas. We had all these traditions that went along with our beach trip: same general area of the beach, same types of beach towels and sand…
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Always Today
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Today… Did you know it is always today? Yesterday was today. When tomorrow gets here it will be today. Today is all we have.
Really, we only have right now. This moment. When the next moment gets here it is this moment. See what I mean?
I used to live in yesterday and tomorrow. I was either regretting what I had done in…
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Song of the Stream Book Launch
Song of the Stream Book Launch
 We have a book launch! Well, almost.
I tried to get everything ready so the book would be up for sale on Amazon by today, but it may be another day or two before it appears there.
I’ll do a separate post when the book is available. Thank you for all the encouragement and kind words already. I pray that the book will be a blessing to you soon!
Phyllis Keels
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Finding Your Strength
This is a week when I needed to hear this message again. I pray it ministers to you too, dear reader.
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There is a white squirrel that lives near me. Sometimes he comes out of the woods and gathers acorns in my yard. The other day, he came up on my deck to get a drink of water from the dish I leave out for the birds.
He’s so pretty. He’s not an albino, but a white squirrel. I call him Gabriel…
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Hearing the Music
Well, I’m a little bit behind schedule on the new devotion book, but I’m close. Really close! The book will be up for sale on Amazon before the end of this month.
As I worked on formatting this book, I was able to experience it the way a reader would. I let the words and the beautiful photographs minister to me. The result was a sweet sense of peace and a fullness of the love of our Heavenly…
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Happy Winds-Day
Photo by Kim Lance (Used by permission. Click image for more of Kim’s work.)
Happy Winds-day, as Winnie the Pooh would say. It most certainly is Winds-day lately. My hair looks reminiscent of a five-year-old child who just got out of bed, after a restless night of tossing and turning. Got the picture?
No matter. It was really nice to feel the warm sunshine yesterday. I needed it. I needed it a…
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The Wind in the Trees
The Wind in the Trees
It is March and it’s really windy lately. That’s normal. The last few days have reminded me how much I love hearing the wind in the trees. One day, that sound and sight sparked a memory. I’m never surprised at the kindness of the Lord. But I am always overwhelmed with gratitude by it. The following is a retelling of one of those days. I pray this blesses you.
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I was looking out a window the…
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Walk As If
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“If” is one of the biggest little words in our language, isn’t it? If I have enough money, I’ll buy this. If things work out the way I want, then I’ll be happy. If I get time, I’ll do the things on the list. If…
It is the hook on which hangs the thing you want, but you just can’t reach it.
It’s a big word unless you put…
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A New Devotion Book
A New Devotion Book
I’ve been working on a new devotion book called The Song of the Stream that will feature Kim Lance’s beautiful photography. I’ve finished the final draft and hope to have it available for sale on Amazon by the end of this month or the first of next month.
It’s a compilation of thirty of my blog posts over the last few years – the ones you shared the most, the ones you said encouraged you,…
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The Good Long Way
The Good Long Way
Photo by Kim Lance (Used by permission. Click image for more of Kim’s work.)
Today I was thinking about how often we get tempted to take the easy way out. It happens all day long. Cut this corner, skip that duty, do what I want instead of helping someone else who needs something…
I usually don’t take the easy way out anymore. I used to when I was younger, but my dad was the king of the good, long…
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The Eldest
I saw a picture on a social media site of three T-shirts, each with a different caption.
The first one had, “I’m the oldest. I make the rules.”
The second had, “I’m the middle. I’m the reason we have rules.”
The third had, “I’m the youngest. The rules don’t apply to me.”
I laughed so hard! It’s true, isn’t it? At least it was in my family.
I’m the oldest. No surprise there. I never thought that…
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Lean in While You Wait
Lean in While You Wait
This is one that I needed to read again. I pray it is a blessing to you too.
Photo by Kim Lance (Used by permission. Click image for more of Kim’s work.)
A couple of years ago I discovered something interesting while waiting and waiting for the figs on my tree to ripen. I checked every day and saw only hard, green, unripe figs or figs that needed another day or two before being picked.
One day in…
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Doing What You Love
Doing What You Love
So… A dear friend said to me recently, “I don’t like the books I’m reading, Phyllis. They’re not like your books (the Daldriada series). I need you to write another one!”
I think that’s one of the most wonderful things an author can hear! It made me happy and sad at the same time.
I miss writing, and I miss my Daldriada characters so much. But you know how life is – work, family, obligations……
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Rescued
Recently I was watching a PBS special about the wild side of our pets. It was so interesting. One section showed thermal imaging of a mother cat with her many nursing kittens.
The narrator said that when the kittens are very young, they can’t generate enough body heat to survive, so the mother keeps them close to her.
One kitten wandered off around a corner. Even within a few minutes, the…
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Invisible Beside the Beauty
Invisible Beside the Beauty
This is a revised, previously posted entry that I hope blesses you today, dear reader.
Photo by Kim Lance (Used by permission. Click image for more of Kim’s work)
My sister, my best friend, and I used to joke that if we went anywhere with my daughter Julie, we three would be invisible next to her. It was true. Julie was so beautiful that when people saw her they didn’t even know we were there.
Th…
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The Sweet Waters
 Photo by Kim Lance (Used by permission. Click image for more of Kim’s work)
I had an insight into myself recently. I always thought I was a pretty positive person – you know? That good, uplifting things are coming out of my mouth? Well…
It happened when I overheard the interaction of a group of people. One person in the group kept saying things like, “No, I hate that. I can’t stand it when that…
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What I Really Want
What I Really Want
 Photo by Kim Lance (Used by permission. Click image for more of Kim’s work)
What do you want? Really want…
I usually know what I want. It’s almost always the same thing: to be surrounded by beauty (like the photo above), for the people I love to be well and full of joy, for everyone to be kind to each other, and for all of us to have no strife… to have peace…
Do you know that when I think about…
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