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What a gift I found this morning. Lately, I have been reading God’s Little Devotional Book of Prayer. I decided to look for one of my old prayer journals and see what prayers had been answered. I have several prayer journals—all only half filled. My life goes in waves. For several months, I write profusely […]
September 15, 2013 in Devotions by Judy Watters
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This Sunday our pastor preached on Luke 13:10-13. “10 On a Sabbath Jesus was teaching in one of the synagogues, 11 and a woman was there who had been crippled by a spirit for eighteen years. She was bent over and could not straighten up at all. 12 When Jesus saw her, he called her […]
February 28, 2013 in Devotions by Judy Watters
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Betrayal, frustration, anxiety, anger, depression—isn’t this the path all marriages take? Mine did—and after only three years, my husband had found perfect wife #3. But mine is not a story of continual bitterness and anger. No, depression has never been a land where I have wanted to live for very long. So at the age […]
June 16, 2012 in Devotions by Judy Watters
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At church last week, our pastor introduced us to the world of a WSM. I never knew the true name for these people, but I do know one or two. Even the joy of the strongest optimist can be drained quickly when in the company of one of these. I think a WSM gradually evolves […]
September 8, 2011 in Devotions by Judy Watters
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Know that God is in control and be glad of it! June 17th was the two year anniversary of our daughter’s operation. After two months of suffering with pneumonia, the doctors finally decided to explore her lungs with a scope and found a carcinoid tumor sitting at the juncture of the two left lobes. What […]
June 27, 2011 in Devotions by Judy Watters
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There are so many different types of pulpits. When I was a little girl growing up in the hills of Pennsylvania, my family attended a little country Congregational church. A most sturdy pulpit with intricate carvings had stood here for 200 years. It had been built to withstand the hardest pulpit thumping. And I am […]
May 11, 2011 in Devotions by Judy Watters
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