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It’s a casual, pony-tail & sandals environment around here, but a few important reminders:

  • Please remember to visit and leave some encouragement for other friends who’ve linked-up today — this is the heart of community & your words of support could be just the thing another friend needs to hear today.
  • Please only share like-minded words of spiritual encouragement and insight.
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  1. Bev @ Walking Well With God says

    July 13, 2017 at 6:06 am

    Brenda,
    Love the quote….been praying for you through the busyness that has been July for you….looking forward to She Speaks!
    Blessings and ((hugs)),
    Bev
    Bev @ Walking Well With God recently posted…Short-Cut To God’s HeartMy Profile

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    • Brenda says

      July 13, 2017 at 3:24 pm

      Thanks for your prayers, Bev. 🙂 Can’t believe SS is next week! Can’t wait. 😀

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  2. Linda Stoll says

    July 13, 2017 at 8:03 am

    How much of life have we missed because we were too tethered to our screens …

    * sigh *
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    • Brenda says

      July 13, 2017 at 3:25 pm

      Indeed, friend. ((hug))

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  3. Stephanie ReadsWell says

    July 13, 2017 at 8:13 am

    Such a great quote by Stephen King. I love all the quotes that you add at the top of each ChasingCommunity post.

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  4. Michele Morin says

    July 13, 2017 at 9:36 am

    I keep reading good snatches of advice from Stephen King, and I guess I’ve just got to read his book on writing. thanks for this great quote. We do get it backwards!
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    • Brenda says

      July 13, 2017 at 3:27 pm

      It’s a good book, Michele, but fair warning–His language is atrocious! 🙂

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  5. Kristi Woods says

    July 13, 2017 at 11:06 am

    So here’s what I did with the quote above: I nabbed another fold-up table and promptly situated it in the corner of the bedroom (my office), adjacent to the other fold-up table (my desk). Even though it’s Stephen King, I see ministry in His words. God’s words through us are a life support system for someone(s) out there. Be faithful. That’s what I see and hear. Good start to a Thursday, Brenda. Blessings, friend.

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    • Brenda says

      July 13, 2017 at 3:29 pm

      Yay, I love that, Kristi. And, thanks for the additional perspective of ministry in his words–great insight, thanks for sharing, friend. ((hug))

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  6. Sandy says

    July 13, 2017 at 12:35 pm

    Thanks for the great link up! I always love stopping by here!
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    • Brenda says

      July 13, 2017 at 3:30 pm

      Thanks for being here and sharing your words, Sandy. Hope you’re having a great summer. (Winter?) 🙂

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  7. Maree Dee says

    July 13, 2017 at 3:27 pm

    I had to read your quote twice before I got it. Great quote! I see you are going to SS next week. Oh, how I wish I was joining you. I would have loved to have met you. However, I am attending a wedding.
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    • Brenda says

      July 13, 2017 at 3:31 pm

      Oh, I wish you could go too, Maree. Maybe another year we’ll be there together. Hope you enjoy the wedding! 🙂

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  8. Julie says

    July 13, 2017 at 4:25 pm

    Brenda- I hope you’re having a great summer 🙂
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Oh, friend, if you too have ever cried the prayer, Oh, friend, if you too have ever cried the prayer, “Lord, we don’t know what to do, but our eyes are on You,” …

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I ponder the familiar words of trust and hope and confidence…trying to remove them from my Sunday School vernacular; willing them to to become foreign to my vocabulary so they might become alive again to my understanding.
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Me too.
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In today’s Proverbs 31 Ministries devotion, I share how the Lord met me in this struggle, and showed me how to trade constant concern for quiet relief.
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35 years this man and I have mini-golfed our way through Labor Day.
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We skipped “Selfie 101;” our photos are forever random. We’re fancy like that. 🙃
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I’d rather have a picture of a flower than a picture of my face every day of the week. 🌸
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Time, I don’t know how you do it. How you turn 1988 into 2023 with just a wink.
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