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Reflections on @stickyJesus: Chapter 15

March 24, 2011 By Sandra Heska King

There are so many other things Jesus did. If they were all written down, each of them, one by one, I can’t imagine a world big enough to hold such a library of books. ~John 21:25 (Message) We’ve come to the end of this book. But really, it’s just the beginning. For me, anyway. You’ve […]

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Reflections on @stickyJesus: Chapter 14

March 22, 2011 By Sandra Heska King

Congratulations! You’ve decided to blog. But what do you write about? Where do you get ideas? As an ambassador for Christ, you have His content as your content. There are not enough days in your lifetime to exhaust the mysteries, the depth, the heights, or the dimensions of His life-changing, soul-morphing truth. ~@stickyJesus, p. 160 […]

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Reflections on @stickyJesus: Chapter 13

March 10, 2011 By Sandra Heska King

Since the gospel is the stickiest story ever told, committing to write a blog is one of the most powerful channels to get that story heard. ~@stickyJesus In the beginning, the future is a pristine expanse that yawns before us. And we step out into it. Sometimes the way is clear, and we journey straight. […]

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Reflections on @stickyJesus: Chapter 12

March 3, 2011 By Sandra Heska King

One could change the world with one hundred and forty characters. ~Jack Dorsey, Twitter originator @redbird Having a bad feather day. Twitter. Where’d that name come from anyway? The creators wanted a name that indicated speed or urgency.  They brainstormed names like “twitch” and “jitter,” but then tripped over the word “twitter” and thought it […]

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Reflections on @stickyJesus: Chapter 11

February 24, 2011 By Sandra Heska King

Abby: hey mom answer me through messaging…I want out! Sissy: This is so sad. You two live a stone’s throw away and yet have to communicate through FB because one or the other doesn’t answer their phone. 🙂 The rest of the story: Abby was post surgery, and I was her wheels. She was out […]

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Reflections on @stickyJesus: Chapter 10

February 17, 2011 By Sandra Heska King

There will be days when you are interacting online and you will feel lonely and shunned and question whether you are making any difference at all. That’s okay. It’s the emotional cost of being a messenger of grace in a foreign land. ~@stickyJesus Lord help me be a reflection of you a messenger of grace […]

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Reflections on @stickyJesus: Chapter 9

February 10, 2011 By Sandra Heska King

Humility is not thinking less of yourself but thinking of yourself less. ~C.S. Lewis Caution! You are about to enter the land of the “streaming me.” Where everyone–almost–screams for attention. Everywhere you click online, competing messages, philosophies, opinions, and personal agendas dominate . . . You can’t be online for five minutes without bumping into […]

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Reflections on @stickyJesus: Chapter 8

February 3, 2011 By Sandra Heska King

I couldn’t help but think of the robot in the series Lost in Space as I read this chapter. Warning! Warning! People walk in darkness. People have lost hope. People are going to die. And they are online. “More people will log onto blogs, Facebook, and Twitter this Sunday than will go to church. More […]

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Reflections on @stickyJesus: Chapter 7

January 27, 2011 By Sandra Heska King

Words which do not give the light of Christ increase the darkness ~Mother Teresa There he was, a powerful pawn, on his way to Damascus, engrossed in the game of Persecute the Christian, when a blast of light knocked Paul to his knees. Blinded by glory, he began to see, and the whole game changed. […]

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Reflections on @stickyJesus: Chapter 6

January 21, 2011 By Sandra Heska King

If we will let Him, Christ will do in us and through us that which He did in and through the committed believers after Pentecost. The potential is ours. Do we dare believe that the faithful Christian believers may yet experience a great new wave of spiritual power? ~A.W. Tozer “He [the Holy Spirit] is […]

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A tale of two iguanas... I did not see the iguana A tale of two iguanas... I did not see the iguana in the background until I downloaded the photos. That, I believe, is the one that got caught in one of the openings in the neighbor's chain link fence. We tried in several (safe) ways to dislodge it without luck and could think of no other option but to leave it. Somehow it apparently dislodged itself. We also believe this is the pair that was getting into another neighbor's garden. We haven't seen either one since the last cold snap, so we are wondering if they survived. 
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Thinking some may have tumbled from their perches last night. Pretty sure it will be raining iguanas tonight since we are under a frost advisory. It's cold. And windy.
Just sing... sing a song... Singing our way into Just sing... sing a song... 

Singing our way into the weekend.
"We don't just see. We learn to see." ~ Russ Ramse "We don't just see. We learn to see." ~ Russ Ramsey in Rembrandt is in the Wind
Now you see me... now you don't. Now you see me... now you don't.
"I started looking and listening. I realized that "I started looking and listening. I realized that work, like life, is shot through with poetry. It was everywhere. I was so taken with what I discovered that I wrote a book about it." @gyoung9751 
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Whether you work in an office, a retail store, a restaurant, or at home... Whether you work on roads or on power lines, or on high buildings...Whether you collect trash or preach sermons, or care for your kiddos. Whether you do art, or weave words, or take photos of a common gallinule AKA moorhen AKA swamp chicken--it's all shot through with poetry.
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So pay attention. Find a poem.
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Read more at https://www.tweetspeakpoetry.com/2023/01/10/its-poetry-at-work-day-2023/
Rising… Rising…
Everyone needs a little balance in life. And maybe Everyone needs a little balance in life. And maybe a beauty routine. And breakfast. Especially breakfast. I wonder if it consists of a few fire ants. I hope so. (Well, not mine. I'm having oatmeal with chia seeds. What are you having this morning?)
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P.S. Happy Friday!
"Though your destination is not yet clear You can "Though your destination is not yet clear You can trust the promise of this opening; Unfurl yourself into the grace of beginning That is at one with your life's desire." ~John O'Donohue 
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A blessing for a new beginning in a new year. I'm sure he wrote it especially for me. At least I'm claiming it. Maybe it will speak to you, too.
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Also, I'd really like this skirt --> 
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Read the whole poem--> -->
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Well, bummer... The whole page didn't print. Read it in the comments below.
"What precocity, a bird half the size Of an Anjou "What precocity, a bird half the size
Of an Anjou pear." ~ Stephen Kuusisto in "The Mockingbird on Central" (Find it in The Poets Guide to the Birds edited by Judith Kitchen and Ted Kooser)
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"The morning pages are the primary tool of creative recovery." ~ Julia Cameron in The Artist's Way. 
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I've been in a long creative drought, so I started morning pages--again. This time I've got a bit of an accountability group through @refineretreat's Refinery--which I finally also joined this year. I'll turn 74 this month. I'm not ready to grow old while I age--though everything does seem to take longer while time goes by faster.
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#aweandwonder #tsaweandwonder
Tonight’s walk in the neighborhood. I’m still Tonight’s walk in the neighborhood. I’m still kinda amazed that out of all the places we could have ended up after moving from a place I said I’d never move from), here we are—planted right next to the northern Everglades. Six-plus years, and I still shake my head in wonder.
"So fancy is the world..." ~ Mary Oliver in "This "So fancy is the world..." ~ Mary Oliver in "This World." #aweandwonder #tsaweandwonder
Look, Mom! I can walk on water! #aweandwonder #tsa Look, Mom! I can walk on water! #aweandwonder #tsaweandwonder
Gazing into 2023 like… Let’s take it step by Gazing into 2023 like… 
Let’s take it step by step with hope and courage. Also I hope to be posting again more often.
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Happy New Year!
The morning before the last morning of 2022. 🌴 The morning before the last morning of 2022. 
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71 degrees. Heading to 83. I can live with that.
From the top of Brasstown Bald—the highest point From the top of Brasstown Bald—the highest point in Georgia at 4784 feet.
Winding roads… Winding roads…
Tonight's moon. It's kinda okay. Tonight's moon. It's kinda okay.
Don’t mind me. Just storking by. Don’t mind me. Just storking by.
I’ve gotten several messages asking if things we I’ve gotten several messages asking if things were okay. Yes. I’ve recovered after 3 weeks in Covid jail. Also, I’ve been a bit scarce on social cuz we’ve been finishing up house renovations, and there is SO much that now needs to be cleaned and stuff put away. Also, we’ve had the second oldest grand with us for two weeks. I “should have” at least shared some stories about our adventures, but we’ve relished the time and kept busy. One can’t leave South Florida without a gator encounter, though, right? Tomorrow the two of us fly back to Michigan, and then I will spend a week with my sister where I expect I will be put to work in the chicken house and the gardens and become a glad(iola) roadside proprietor for a day at the Four Star in while she and my BIL attend a family reunion. I’ll also get to see my dad in the nursing home and spend a couple nights with my daughter. D will hold down the fort here. Then maybe by the first of next month, I’ll be able to finish putting things in order, breathe, find some writing space and get back to normal. Whatever that is.
I tossed and turned all night. And then the storm I tossed and turned all night. And then the storm started. I finally got up about 5ish and sat outside to watch. Until a couple mosquitoes found me. Also, the jasmine hadn’t gone to bed yet and smelled heavenly.
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