Friends & Family March 2022

By Barbara Rainey | March 30, 2022 | 0 Comments

What a difference a few weeks make! Earlier this month Dennis and I went to the farm (my mom’s birthplace that my brothers and I inherited after her death in 2020) for a couple days. We wanted to check on work we’re having done to make repairs and updates to the over 100-year-old house. While […]

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Friends & Family January 2022

By Michele Scallion | January 27, 2022 | 1 Comment

Happy New Year everyone! I do know it’s not happy for everyone. Life is hard and always will be, but God is good and never will that change. Here’s an update on some of our very normal good and bad moments in January. I’m resorting to a bullet list for this month’s letter as a […]

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Friends and Family: Looking Forward to 2022

By Barbara Rainey | December 28, 2021 | 4 Comments

Merry Christmas everyone! December began with three days for Dennis and me in a cabin at Mount Magazine, the highest mountain in Arkansas. The views are truly impressive. We enjoyed the slower pace and the opportunity to focus on writing with no distractions. I started a writing series of blog posts on “Disappointed With God” […]

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3 Ways to Savor the Savior This Week

By Barbara Rainey | December 27, 2021 | 8 Comments

Stop for a minute. Yes, Christmas Day is now over, but don’t hurry to box up the ornaments and purge the regalia from your home! Recently on December 26 a national morning show featured an “expert” happily talking about packing away decorations and properly disposing of your Christmas tree. “It’s time to move on” was the […]

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Parenting Children With Visible and Invisible Limitations

By Barbara Rainey | December 6, 2021 | 8 Comments

  Of our two sons, one was more athletic, while the other was more scholastically inclined. The younger one’s first word was, “ball.” The older one started reading before age five. They could not be more different. Instead of playing basketball for hours on the court Dennis built for the boys (because that’s what he […]

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