August is the month of my birth. Yup – I was an ‘August baby’. Nearly every birthday after I was a grown up, my mother would tell me, ‘how I suffered with you’ (giving birth)! I’m thinking that it was one of those terribly hot August dawg-days – and I’m sure with no air conditioning, it was brutal. But really, Mum?! She would say, though, that I was ‘awfully cute’. I’ll take that.
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God bless America, land that I love
Stand beside her and guide her
Through the night with the light from above
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Because of a series of overwhelming challenges this past month – and truly being too mentally exhausted to write something original, I have decided to include this writing by Bernadette Noll. The subject of ‘sea glass’ is very near and dear to my heart. I have a tall bottle of it right full from when my sons were young and we would spend the day on the rocks in Red Beach, Maine looking for the glass. I cherish that bottle of glass. It brings back such sweet and precious memories every time I look at it. The writing below says everything I would want to say if I had ever thought to write an article on ‘sea glass’. When I read it, I address it to my Creator – praising Him for fearfully and wonderfully making me – for smoothing (refining) me but not breaking me.
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‘For My people have forgotten Me, they burn incense to worthless gods and they have stumbled from their ways, from the ancient paths, to walk in bypaths, not on a highway, Like an east wind I will scatter them before the enemy; I will show them My back and not My face in the day of their calamity.’ – Jeremiah 18:15,17
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tad: a small amount of something. That’s the dictionary’s definition of the word ‘tad’. But this is not the ‘tad’ I am writing about.
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