Betty Whitaker Jackson

Sharing the plenty in 2020 is easy after the wonderful day yesterday. Exodus 15:2 says, “The Lord is my strength and my song; He has become my victory. He is my God, and I will praise Him; He is my father’s God, and I will exalt Him!” Yesterday started with the spotting of our deer from two years ago revisiting our yard. We didn’t see her last year, so imagine our joy when first thing yesterday she was in our…..

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Sharing the Plenty in Twenty-Twenty

January always brings a sense of excitement to me. It’s literally like starting over, thinking fresh thoughts, beginning new projects, refreshing my prayer life and my spiritual growth, and updating things around the home. Following the Christmas season, it’s good to put away all its paraphernalia. I just can’t wait to put away my precious nativities, now close to one-hundred sets, change the paintings on the wall, clean the corners, and start over.

We live…..

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“A cheerful heart is good medicine, but a broken spirit saps a person’s strength.” Proverbs 17:22. or put another way, “A cheerful heart is good medicine, but a crushed spirit dries up the bones.” In this new year, let us nourish an attitude of gratitude and service. Share your plenty in twenty-twenty. It will make this world a better place, one smile at a time. Have a blessed day.

Today the children where I live go back to school after…..

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Share Your Plenty in Twenty-Twenty

It seems to me that one way we can improve out world is to look outward, get out of the way, stop the entitlement game we too often play, and think creatively about how we can improve our world.

We read of increasing suspicion, political rivalry, the “me-first” attitudes, the competitiveness, the “get it for cheap even though it cripples businesses,” the negativity which dominates cable news, and the downright rudeness and self-centered attitudes we…..

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This story is highly autobiographical, and I credit the Holy Spirit’s guidance in my writing. While the details are somewhat fictional, (I did write a piece in the style of Canterbury Tales, but did not use animals), the reliance on God’s direction is the point of telling readers this story in “Led by the Spirit,” for my intention is writing is to tell God’s story of the Spirit’s guiding in my work. Godincidences are indeed real. No fiction there.

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Guess we’ve dodged another “hurricane” type threat today. Two weeks ago, it was Dorian which skirted our shore; today it’s an unnamed tropical depression which was to bathe us in tons of rain and swirl it around with wind. The joys of Florida life.

The last two evenings we’ve had sweet GK times. While our kids, Paul and Mary, their parents, and our daughter Nancy have been rehearsing for this weekend’s concerts with the Space Coast Symphony Orchestra, we’ve put…..

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A year ago, September 12, I began my journey with a serious eye injury to my retina. Since that time I have had three operations and a steroid shot and more eyedrops than I think might fill my yard lily pond. Thankfully, I can see well enough now to read size 14 font and am busy writing my twentieth book. I have so missed writing my blog. I’m back.

I would love to say I have learned anything but patience…..

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Today a hurricane approaches the southern short, I have fifteen people on my prayer list with serious medical issues, and I am living with severely blurry vision and see a retina specialist this morning for diagnosis and I hope treatment. I need to remember God is in charge and He can use all these to His glory.

When my heart is burdened, O Lord,

You remind me through Your Spirit

That You are in control,

That I need not fear,

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Our congregation at Covenant Church sang this wonderful praise song last Sunday, and I pray its words today, so that our community and our world can be blessed again. The words and music are by Brenton Brown. The title is “A Thousand Generations.” May these words be in our minds and hearts as we live through this day, and may it stand as the prayer for this generation as well: “You have been faithful to a thousand generations, Slow to…..

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