Singing a Song In Your Trial

June 18, 2025June 13, 2025 RefreshHerLeave a comment

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What are you singing about today? Do you have a song springing up in your heart? Or is there a trouble that’s like a black cloud hovering over you?

If so, What psalm comes to your mind? Is it possibly Psalm 46? It’s a favorite because it’s so comforting and encouraging. Perhaps today is a day of trouble…let me encourage your heart with truth from Ps 46, and also share a challenge about our responsibility.

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Hot Pepper Strawberry Freezer Jam & Charcuterie Cups for Easy Entertaining

June 16, 2025June 15, 2025 RefreshHerLeave a comment

While we serve at The Wilds this summer and befriend the sponsors who bring their kids to camp, I have the blessing of teaching a ladies’ session each Wednesday afternoon. As a part of our time together, I long to show hospitality and create fellowship among the women. It’s a bit challenging, but I believe if we ask the Lord how we can be hospitable, He will make a way.

As I prayed about how to do that this summer, the Lord brought my Strawberry Freezer Jam from last summer to mind. I made a lot, and it needs to be eaten! I wondered how I could use it, then I thought of Hot Pepper Jelly poured over cream cheese. I knew that would make a great little snack to serve my new friends at camp! Then I set to work to turn my freezer jam into hot pepper jelly! It was an easy task!

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Reflecting on My Dad’s Love: A Father’s Day Tribute

June 13, 2025June 12, 2025 RefreshHer2 Comments

This Father’s Day weekend, I have been thinking much about my dad who has been in heaven for a little more than two years. His passing was hard, but honestly, he had suffered so much that we were all relieved that he was no longer sick, but was now in heaven with His Savior. As the song goes, “All is peace forevermore, on that happy Golden Shore.” I can only imagine all he has been enjoying since his feet touched that Golden shore!

There are many things that I desperately miss about him that made him the best father a daughter could ask for. Here are just three…

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Fear of death

When Death Threatens You

June 11, 2025June 8, 2025 RefreshHerLeave a comment

Yesterday morning I woke up with an old memory very fresh in my mind. I was reminded of a day when I was a 13 year-old girl living in Winchester, Kentucky. I had gone to my bedroom to hang my jacket on the hook on the back of my door. I tilted my head back and lifted my arms to raise my coat up, and when I did, the sour ball candy that was in my mouth slid down my throat like a speeding bowling ball on a well-greased lane. I couldn’t cough, gasp or breathe. It was STUCK in my windpipe.

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Effortless Meal Planning with Chat GPT

June 9, 2025June 8, 2025 RefreshHer2 Comments

The virtuous woman of Proverbs 31 inspires us to provide for our families when we read…

She is like the merchant ships,
    bringing her food from afar.
¹⁵She gets up while it is still night;
    she provides food for her family
    and portions for her female servants.

I love going into my kitchen and stirring up good food, but sometimes coming up with a meal plan for the whole week is laborious. There are health issues to consider and also waistlines. I don’t want too many carbs, but plenty of protein. I want a variety of good foods, but nothing that takes forever to prepare. Oh the quandary!

There have been years in my past of sitting down with a treasured cookbook and flipping through to find new recipes to add, but oh, the time that took! Then a couple weeks ago my daughter told me she asked Chat GPT to create a menu for her! In a matter of seconds, she had a week’s worth of meals, complete with shopping list!

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