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The Steadfast Butterfly
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by Kim Ford
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The Steadfast Butterfly
Jul 20, 20224 min
The Power of Encouragement
“And let us consider how we may spur one another on toward love and good deeds. Let us not give up meeting together, as some are in the...
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The Steadfast Butterfly
Jul 20, 20225 min
Psalm 23, Jersey Shore Style
Psalm 23 “The Lord is my shepherd. I shall not be in want. He makes me lie down in green pastures, he leads me beside quiet waters, he...
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The Steadfast Butterfly
Jul 20, 20224 min
Our Varied Responses to Jesus Christ
Our Varied Responses to Jesus Christ During the Triumphal Entry of Jesus, on the Monday before Passover in A.D. 33 (estimated year), as...
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The Steadfast Butterfly
Jul 20, 20224 min
Monitoring the Heart
Monitoring the Heart In order to be cleared for surgery I had to have a pre-op appointment by a cardiologist. Several tests have been...
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The Steadfast Butterfly
Jul 20, 20224 min
Hospitality with a purpose
In my childhood years I grew up in a home that was designed with entertaining in mind…both inside and out. The pool area had a fully...
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The Steadfast Butterfly
Jul 20, 20224 min
Home
Home What creates the feeling of being “home”? Does our experience of home point to something deeply spiritual and eternal? I have lived...
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The Steadfast Butterfly
Jul 20, 20224 min
For the Empty Nester
For the Empty Nester We have been in the empty nest category since 2013 when our youngest child started college and moved across the...
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The Steadfast Butterfly
Jul 20, 20224 min
Community within the Church
Community within the Church Ten years ago our church began to formalize and promote the idea of “community groups” within our church....
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The Steadfast Butterfly
Jul 20, 20225 min
Cancel Culture – Would Jesus Approve?
On an episode of ‘Welcome Back, Kotter’, a TV sitcom from the 1970’s, Vinnie Barbarino meets someone he is crazy about. Because they...
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The Steadfast Butterfly
Jul 20, 20224 min
Depression
When Robin Williams died, there was a lot of discussion about his battle with depression and chemical dependence, ending in the ultimate...
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The Steadfast Butterfly
Jul 20, 20224 min
Anticipating the Suffering
Anticipating the Suffering Suffering is something we will inevitably experience at some point in our lives. It’s a given. Recently I have...
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The Steadfast Butterfly
Jul 20, 20225 min
Adding in Laughter for Spiritual Wellness
This morning I was telling a joke I had just made up and my three-year-old granddaughter laughed. She got it! It was a joke for more...
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The Steadfast Butterfly
Jul 20, 20225 min
Conversion
When reading the account of how the Apostle Paul became a follower of Jesus, he starts out as “Saul”, the persecutor of The Way (now...
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The Steadfast Butterfly
Jul 20, 20224 min
Sleepless in Alaska
Darkness is finally falling. It’s 12:47am on June 5th in Alaska. The day has been unusually hot and the heat remains in the house, even...
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The Steadfast Butterfly
Jul 20, 20225 min
Choose Thy Love
"Choose Thy Love, Love Thy Choice" I Corinthians 13:4-7 “Love is patient and kind. Love is not jealous or boastful or proud or rude. It...
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The Steadfast Butterfly
Jul 20, 20223 min
True Humility
True Humility Recently I have been striving to have more humility. It’s a characteristic I want, and I know it does not come naturally to...
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The Steadfast Butterfly
Jul 19, 20224 min
"This is the Day..."
#MothersDay #FirstMothersDayWithoutHer #MissingMyMom My mom recently passed away at age 95. She lived a long and joyful, but also...
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The Steadfast Butterfly
Oct 31, 20215 min
Caring for our Elders
My mom is now 95 1/2. That "1/2 matters". I was here visiting her in Florida 6 months ago and things have changed since then. Care was...
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The Steadfast Butterfly
Feb 7, 20218 min
Grandparent Nightmare on a Beautiful Winter's Day
This morning started out like any other good Sunday. We had coffee by the fire. We had some good discussion. We made it to church on time...
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The Steadfast Butterfly by Kim Ford
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