Topping my favorite things list

is cuddling with a sweet smelling baby. I could sit and inhale the delightful aroma of a precious little one all day long. I may or may not be as fanatical as Peter Boyle’s character, Frank Barone on Everybody Loves Raymond when he’d say let me just smell their heads. It’s the fountain of youth. I’m sucking in that youth.

I have been known to swipe whiffs from the top of the precious little head to the tips of the wiggly little toes. Then, if I can snuggle too, I’m in baby heaven. I’m floating amongst the clouds when the baby molds its body as snuggly as my Isotoner gloves.

There is something therapeutic about sweet baby smells. They always made me happy, but I didn’t realize the medicinal value until my father passed away in August of 2003. Right after his death, I accepted an invitation to spend a few days with family in Las Vegas.

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Where can you find

                                     in one weeks time, more than 300 excited children of God

                                                                                         who jumped with joy ~

                                                                     

             


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The LORD is my shepherd;

I shall not want.

 He makes me to lie down in green pastures;

He leads me beside the still waters.

 He restores my soul; He leads me in the paths of righteousness

For His name’s sake. 

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The country fell in love with

a beautiful little girl that had big brown eyes named Caylee Marie Anthony.

Everywhere I go, the main topic of conversation is her “evil” mother. Strangers talk across dinner tables about the recent not guilty verdict. Facebook posts and tweets overflow cyber land with rage regarding the jury’s decision. News channels are devoting 24 hour programming covering Casey Anthony’s trial, verdict and release date.

Everyone has an opinion. People that are normally calm are outraged. I am outraged – but not for the same reason most of the general public is. Though I feel a guilty outcome may have been in order, I’m not sure about the death penalty phase of the trial. As a Christian, I believe in one God as the ultimate judge of our actions.
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Counting your blessings

can be humbling. Finally, all of you be of one mind, having compassion for one another, love as brothers, be tenderhearted, be courteous … knowing that you were called to this, that you may inherit a blessing.  
1 Peter 3:8-9. As you know, blessings can be small or large and come wrapped in all sorts of packages.

To speak on Father’s Day morning was a blessing bestowed upon me and the magnitude of this gift overwhelmed me! Last week, I watched the video from that speaking engagement. I was in tears by the time the recording was over.

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