Circle of Friends http://www.ourcircleoffriends.org Tue, 21 May 2013 04:53:52 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 Confessions of a Peace Lover… http://www.ourcircleoffriends.org/confessions-of-a-peace-lover-91/ http://www.ourcircleoffriends.org/confessions-of-a-peace-lover-91/#comments Tue, 21 May 2013 04:53:52 +0000 Beth Beechy http://www.ourcircleoffriends.org/?p=5461

I just got off the phone with a 92 year old friend and prayer partner. He called to check in on my family, to get the correct spelling of a friend’s last name, to see how life is in my little corner of the world and to let me know that his granddaughter is out of the hospital and another granddaughter is loving her time in Ethiopia. His call made me smile.

He is a prayer warrior and I am honored to call him friend.

I cannot

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It wasn’t anything that seemed like it should have been that big of a deal. Something non-climatic like tumbling off of a chair while playing, led to my daughter’s ankle being hurt.  She cried out in pain as she landed on it the wrong

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]]> http://www.ourcircleoffriends.org/twist-and-shout/feed/ 0 Happy Like This http://www.ourcircleoffriends.org/happy-like-this/ http://www.ourcircleoffriends.org/happy-like-this/#comments Thu, 16 May 2013 09:00:40 +0000 Jennifer Allen http://www.ourcircleoffriends.org/?p=5289 I’ll never forget my first encounter with Ann Voskamp and her book One Thousand Gifts. It is no secret that I love this author and her writings. I’ve written about my love for Ann many times before now.

I remember sitting in Barnes and Noble, book in hand, settled deep into an overstuffed chair. I opened One Thousand Gifts, a gift from my sister, and began to read words that line by line, page by page changed my heart and changed life. Instantly absorbed in Ann’s words of

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A dear friend and I attended a prayer meeting recently where an interesting physical observation led to spirit prompted prayer.We are about the same age and both complaining of sagging eye lids!Not only does the extra weight feel strange it actually affects vision by hindering the visual field.This did not happen overnight but is the result of time. 

We are both very thankful for our eyesight and chose to use the insight

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I don’t know about you but at our house it seems like yesterday was the first day of Spring and suddenly we’ve jumped to mid-May! This month has been jam-packed with activities, among them Parents Weekend at Emily’s college; a 10K fundraiser for Cystic Fibrosis shared with daughter Leah; basketball games for Meg; weekly guitar lessons for Clay; and a nice long phone call on Mother’s Day call from Krista, a fun time of catching up on life in her world. This summer she’s hanging out with a friend

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