Sapphire Visions

08/27/2022

Homemade pig slop for tomorrow’s lesson for 1st & 2nd grade. 😀

08/02/2022

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06/08/2021

New post:

In our excursions to the Veteran’s Home, we didn’t venture up on the sixth floor very often. That was the locked unit, which I only envisioned filled with people who wandered aimlessly; or sat...

12/22/2020

Remembering Dad today:

The nurse poked her head into the room shortly after I pressed the call light. “I think he’s gone,” I whispered, already realizing he had breathed his last. His pulse was taken and the doctor...

12/17/2020

It's ok not to feel the Christmas spirit. Our faith is not based on feelings.

It wasn’t supposed to be this way , she thought, as she reclined heavily against a half-eaten pile of hay. A lot of things had not gone the way she imagined them. I planned to enjoy a happy wedding...

09/15/2020

If you want practical tips for sharing the Gospel, this may help.

In the face of tribulation, we’re taught to look on the bright side. But in quiet moments of conviction, we may be haunted by the parade of faces of lost loved ones in our minds. As Christians, we...

09/13/2020

We MUST warn others.

​“If you see BRILLIANT LIGHT brighter than the sunlight, DIVE FAST to put something (dirt, tree, wall) between you and explosion,” read the tiny brochure. The Department of the Army Graphic...

08/18/2020

Sometimes we don't get our miracle.

“Do you know what this is?” Then in his eighties, the tattooed markings on Leo’s forearm showed no signs of fading. Though we had never seen it before, we instantly knew they were the symbols...

08/11/2020

New post - Lesson learned on who to ask for help:

I grew up going to small churches where there was no youth minister. It’s been said that you can’t miss what you never had, and that was true for me. There were always volunteers who stepped up...

07/27/2020

We must warn others before it is too late.

Everyone always commented that Amanda had the best house on the block. Besides being by far the biggest, the two stories with accompanying basement, attic and two two-car garages nestled comfortably...

07/22/2020

"May our Lord Jesus Christ himself & God our Father, who loved us & by his grace gave us eternal encouragement & good hope, encourage your hearts & strengthen you in every good deed & word." 2 Thess 2:16-17

A place to be challenged and encouraged

07/03/2020

"We have a duty to worship, no matter the rights conferred upon us by a lost and dying world."

With the ever-increasing tumult around us, we see hatred spewed without restraint; riots and looting; violence against those with opposing views; statues toppled indiscriminately; war-ravaged...