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SATURDAISIES: How Has the Holy Spirit Messed YOU Up?
The Holy Spirit messes me all up. Don’t laugh. It’s true. She does. You know, I used to be able to sustain anger like a boss. I could hold a grudge like nobody’s business. Where once I could brew...
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SATURDAISIES: Please Let What God is Telling You Be Louder than What Those in...
I remember a couple of years ago when a “surge” of children walked to this country… walked… all the way from Honduras, Guatemala, and El Salvador because their lives in their own countries were too...
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SATURDAISIES: Juxtaposition — It’s Everywhere
Two guys are pretty big in the news right now: One is Martin Shkreli, CEO of Turing Pharmaceuticals, who bought a 62-year old pill that cost a little over ten bucks for just one, and then jacked the...
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SATURDAISIES: The Flying M-Inklings – We’re in a Cabin in the Idaho Outback...
Yeah, be jealous — because BEING A WRITER is THE LIFE! At this very moment, our writing group is on its 2nd annual MINKLINGS’ WRITING RETREAT planning our 3rd year together! A couple of nights ago, I...
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SATURDAISIES: The Makings of a Successful Writing Group
Last week I tried to entice all the writers out there to consider being part of a writing group. The power of synergy can be life-changing and can help achieve much more together than one ever could...
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SATURDAISIES: Using your Writing Group to Promote Literacy and Establish a...
I never have trouble getting up before my alarm rings on a Saturday morning. For one, I’m looking forward to my weekly blog, SATURDAISIES, to go live. And second, it’s time to get together with my...
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SATURDAISIES: NaNoWriMo is Almost HERE!
What is NaNoWriMo, you say? NATIONAL NOVEL WRITING MONTH! We are just crazy enough to write 50,000 words in 30 days! Are YOU? The Flying M-Inklings are hosting this year’s event at the Flying M...
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SATURDAISIES: Aging Gracefully — There’s More Riding on This Than You Think!
I’m 49. And three weeks. And one day. I’m not old, and everything is relative, right? But it’s becoming ever apparent to me that I’m not a shiny new penny either. Nora Ephron wrote a book...
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I Think We Should All Sit Down and Have a Cup of Coffee in a Big, Red Cup!
Sweet little baby Jesus on a unicycle. Please tell me these rants are merely the death throes of a way of thinking and doing life that doesn’t have very much longer to exist on this planet:...
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SATURDAISIES: Aging Gracefully — Part Two
Since it’s always great to talk about the body parts that are falling apart in our declining years, I posted a piece last week recounting the gloriousness of all that and suggested gently that we do it...
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SATURDAISIES: Now that the Red Cup Brouhaha is Over… What Next?
For all the people who jumped on the Starbucks Hates Jesus bandwagon, (you’ve GOT to see the video on this link!) just as many people are saying that they’re tired of it. Well? Unlucky me, because...
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Happy Thanksgiving to My Rainy Dais Family
Wishing my Rainy Dais Family every happiness today. I cannot tell you how thankful I am for each and every one of you. With all my love, Daisy Rain
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SATURDAISIES: Hope is Here… and Holly Was Too
This week I have been shown extravagant love. It started last Friday afternoon when My Holly Chamberlain and Sean-Martin, who had been conspiring since August to give me the surprise of my entire...
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SATURDAISIES: Pretty Love
Love is so pretty. Sometimes it comes in the form of roses and sweet notes. Sometimes it snuggles up to us courtesy of a very sleepy baby with a tummy full of milk and not a care in this world....
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SATURDAISIES: “God Isn’t Fixing This!” So, I’ve Heard…
So. This headline went out recently: Gotta sell copy, right? With a headline like that, the Daily News certainly peddled a few papers, stirred up yet another controversy in America, and got people...
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For those who call me Aunt Daisy…
In my heart are many biscuits, nieces, and nephews… I love them. I think about them. I pray for them. I wish every good thing for them. They call me Aunt Daisy. A few of those nieces and nephews are...
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SATURDAISIES: Wisdom from Tim Stafford
“The greatest incubator for hopelessness is isolation.” ~ Dr. Tim Stafford Yesterday I Instagramed another #AffirmationFriday for my good friend, Tim Stafford. I worked with Tim at a private...
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SATURDAISIES: 1.16.16 – If My Pastor Would Stop Preaching for a While, I...
Not kidding. If Reverend Jim Halbert from my church, Crossroads Community, would go to Hawaii for a six-week sabbatical, I could probably finish Hope Givers. I guess a girl could write forever about...
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SATURDAISIES: It’s RAIN Writer Saturday with Janelle Stauffer – 5 Truths (for...
by Janelle Stauffer I’m a trauma therapist. As a specialist, I’m blessed to say that I’ve been through many trainings from leading researchers and scientists about how to safely and efficiently work...
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SATURDAISIES: An Interview with Chris Kratzer – LBGT-Affirming Pastor Who...
Chris, if memory serves, you and I met online over the Starbuck’s Christmas cup brouhaha. I believe I read an article of yours and, within a few minutes, I’d found you online and sent you a Facebook...
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