Tag Archives: Writing

A Better Me

Posted on January 19, 2020 by wisdomfromafather

When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a woman, I put the ways of childhood behind me. – 1 Corinthians 13:11 (NIV) When I … Continue reading →

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Five Minute Friday — Sacrifice

Posted on January 17, 2020 by wisdomfromafather

Time for this week’s installment of Five Minute Friday. It certainly creeps up on you … especially when you’re on the road. Five Minute Friday, of course, is a discipline where independent writers join together to transform thoughts on a … Continue reading →

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Accountability

Posted on January 14, 2020 by wisdomfromafather

I need someone to hold me accountable for my personal writing. No. I need someone to manage my writing activity. No. I need a ringmaster to corral my thoughts. No. I need them all. There are a couple of facts … Continue reading →

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Seeds of Faith

Posted on January 12, 2020 by wisdomfromafather

So neither the one who plants nor the one who waters is anything, but only God who gives the growth. 1 Corinthians 3:7 Miss Mildred, the Sunday church school teacher of my teen years, always held a special place in … Continue reading →

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Change the World

Posted on January 7, 2020 by wisdomfromafather

Don’t read anything into this post or between the lines, but the adventures of the past three months have focused on my mortality. I am hopeful there will be many more years of blogging and sharing, but I’m also cognizant, … Continue reading →

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Friday

Posted on January 3, 2020 by wisdomfromafather

It’s Friday and I’m at a writing loss. Normally I would have a Five Minute Friday prompt to guide me but, well, we’re on a well-needed holiday hiatus. Normally, I would have about a thousand random thoughts racing through my … Continue reading →

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The Journey Continues

Posted on January 2, 2020 by wisdomfromafather

Now that I’ve “officially” completed my late year journey, it’s time to figure out the next step. It’s one of the questions just about everyone asks me, and, of course, my family has been making their respective pitches for why … Continue reading →

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The Journey — Part Five

Posted on December 31, 2019 by wisdomfromafather

One of the great things about my journey over the past three months is my plans have not been constrained. I challenged myself to visit with the kids/grandkids/great-grandkids and meet and greet with other family and friends — new and … Continue reading →

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Daddy

Posted on December 29, 2019 by wisdomfromafather

And because you are children, God has sent the Spirit of His Son into our hearts, crying, “Abba! Father!” So you are no longer a slave but a child, and if a child then also an heir, through God. — … Continue reading →

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Five Minute Friday

Posted on December 27, 2019 by wisdomfromafather

Normally, today would be a post on the prompt word from Kate Motaung and released at last night’s Twitter party for our FMF writing group. However, because of the busyness of Christmas, the visits, the baking, the exhaustion, we’ve taken … Continue reading →

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