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LOWLY SERVICE OR SERVICE OF HIGH DEGREE?

Posted on December 10, 2020 by oneta hayes

Yesterday I mentioned “essential job” in my post, Home Intruders. There were some comments that made me remember the following draft I have been wanting to use some day. So this is the day. 😀 I am using the image … Continue reading →

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NOSY OLD BUSYBODY!

Posted on June 6, 2019 by oneta hayes

  I was a new resident in the neighborhood.  I passed this house everyday going to work, then coming home.   I began to notice that the blinds were opened a bit just above the window sill.  An old woman was … Continue reading →

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WITH UNVEILED FACE

Posted on January 18, 2019 by oneta hayes

2 Cor. 3:18 “And we, who with unveiled faces contemplate the Lord’s glory, are being transformed into his likeness with ever-increasing glory,…” While reading this scripture in my Bible,  I noticed that at some other time I had underlined it—except … Continue reading →

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LEST I GET A BIG HEAD

Posted on August 17, 2018 by oneta hayes

HUMBLING THOUGHTS Why am I on this self-evaluation mode this morning? I don’t know but it is humbling. So if I write it maybe someone will tell me how great I am while I am in this enlightened stage in … Continue reading →

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SHOW LESS OF ME, MORE OF CHRIST

Posted on December 26, 2017 by oneta hayes

This picture of Ashlyn was taken three  years ago.  I love her expressions that often look like she in on a big secret.  What an honored place to be! Jesus said, “I have called you friends, for everything that I … Continue reading →

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BEING GREAT IS BEING SERVANT OF ALL

Posted on November 3, 2017 by oneta hayes

(I am writing this in response to Michelle’s Nov. 2 challenge “unassuming diversions.”  My memory bank holds in honor a college president who was not too great to be humble.  His official business made room for “humble diversions.”) I Tim. … Continue reading →

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CATHEDRAL vs upper room

Posted on November 2, 2017 by oneta hayes

    “Not by might, not by power, but by my Spirit,” says the Lord. How we sometimes knock ourselves out to be the biggest, richest, friendliest, most talented, most caring, most influential and most effective voice for Jesus! And … Continue reading →

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PARABLE OF THE BOWL

Posted on October 21, 2017 by oneta hayes

 THE PARABLE OF THE BOWL As always Bowl was sitting in the shadow of the mud room wall waiting again for Servant to come and fill it with food scraps for Dog, who knocked it around as he licked down … Continue reading →

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EATING HUMBLE PIE

Posted on August 27, 2017 by oneta hayes

EATING HUMBLE PIE.  Why am I on this self-evaluation mode this morning? I don’t know but it is humbling. So if I write it maybe someone will tell me how great I am while I am in this enlightened stage … Continue reading →

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ESTHER’S humble BOLDNESS

Posted on June 11, 2017 by oneta hayes

Heb. 4:16 “Let us therefore come boldly unto the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy, and find grace to help in time of need.” Boldly is used over 40 times in the scripture; most of the time it … Continue reading →

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