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Don’t Forget to Look Back

My family and I have been doing a lot of looking ahead. While planning the move to Texas we looked ahead for everything from a place to live to what grocery stores were in the area. Now here and settled in Fort Worth we look ahead to events, due dates, or holidays. We plan our weeks out ahead for food purchases, always trying to stay “ahead” of all the many things in life  that always seem to be running faster than we are.Now I’m not here to say that planning and...

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Reset Your Mind on Christ

A three-bedroom house, a family of nine, and a record console blaring Elvis Presley’s “I’m all Shook Up.” It wasn’t often that the wooden house I grew up in would be rocking, but when my sister Francis would start playing Elvis’s record, each family member would stop in the middle of their chores and do our best to replicate the dance style of the King of Rock & Roll. If you were to ask me what song title I think most depicts my feelings in the last...

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A Life of Joy

“Now that I am staying in an assisted living home, I am able to use my humor and caring spirit daily to brighten the day for staff and some of the residents whose families have forgotten them.” – Joy Craig “Growing up in a West Texas home with loving Christian parents, I have relied on God to see me through numerous illnesses, surgeries and other challenging times. I remember standing in our kitchen at the age of 10 years old when I felt the Holy Spirit come upon...

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