Devotion: Our Sure Foundation Despite Illness in Our Lives

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"So this is what the Sovereign Lord says: "See! I am lay a stone in Zion, a tested stone, a precious cornerstone for a sure foundation: the one who trusts will never be dismayed. (Isaiah 28:16) Some months ago I had some excitement in my neighborhood! About a quarter mile from my house an old building was knocked down and the ground prepared for a new building. Closer to home though, the house beside me was loaded onto a large flatbed low loader truck and driven away to a new location. The men came in one day and jacked the three-bedroom wooden house up on specialized jacks and lifted it off its piles. A few days later they came and drove a large hydraulic trailer under the house then lowered the house off its jacks and on to the … [Read more...]

Can Your Or Your Kids Set a New Record? Fun Summer Project

Summer is coming soon & if you are a mom or dad with a chronic illness you may be wondering how you are going to fill in some of that spare time your children have. Here is one web site that get the kids, even if they are only 6 or 7 years old, to start thinking about what they could do to set a record. The Universal Record Database is touted as "the definitive site for human achievement." While I don't think seeing how many spoons you can knock off the counter with your nose in 20 seconds can be defined as a human achievement. . . who am I to judge? The fun thing about this site is that you can do almost anything, video tape it, & stick it up as a new record. One gal decided to see how many plastic spoons she could hold in 1 h& (45). … [Read more...]