Abba's Art

Tag: Love

  • Hear the Bells, not the Dissention

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    Fred D
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    Peace and good will are prevalent during the Christmas season, but not for everyone. Tis’ a season of conflict and enmity for some. Christmas day 1863 found Henry Wadsworth Longfellow grieving over his son wounded in the Civil War battle of Gettysburg. Two years earlier his wife had burned to death in a fire. Consumed…

  • Why?

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    Fred D
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    “To love and cherish, For better or worse, for richer or poorer, In sickness and in health. From this day forward.” 13 years ago, under Big Sky sunshine, I pledged these words to a woman who spoke them back to me. I remain as gratefully astounded today as I was then how the Lord sent…

  • Thanksgiving Thank You

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    Fred D
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    To my family, friends, those of you I may have only ever met in cyberspace, and all others who have crossed my life’s path ever so briefly . . . Thank You! for . . .  that word …               your text …                                  that note …                                                    the smile …                                                                    that hug ……

  • A.I. Road Trip

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    Fred D
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    The Cherahola Parkway is a scenic, mile-high, two-lane highway winding over the Smokies between Tellico Plains, TN and Robbinsville, NC. Earlier this week Ellie decided to take a road trip along it before the forests shed their spectacular, multi-hued fall display of color. Somehow, I had managed to cajole my permanent girlfriend to explore a…

  • A Mother’s Prayer

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    Fred D
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    If ever there was a child who tested the limits of a mother’s patience, love and forgiveness, it was little Freddy 😊Thankfully, my childhood ‘antics’ mitigated some with age. Years later, when challenged with much more grievous, adult ‘antics’, my Mom’s patience, love and forgiveness never wavered. She was always there for me. She modeled…

  • Reflections

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    Fred D
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    “As water reflects the face, so one’s life reflects the heart.” Proverbs 27:19 King Solomon’s sobering words echoed from tulips’ ethereal reflections cast on the stream today. Pondering many of my heart reflections cast on life’s stream hasn’t created a lovely bouquet. However, we never step in the same stream twice, and by God’s grace…

  • Pray 4 Peace

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    Fred D
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    Today Malcolm, a blogger in England posted this picture and a prayer I felt led to share. It’s been said, “A picture is worth 1,000 words.”. . . this picture would fill a dictionary. I can’t help but think it’s what Jesus meant regarding Love when He said “…Love your neighbor as yourself…”, and when…

  • Alter Ego #2

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    Fred D
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    A while back I began a collection of short, anonymous tributes to some of my wan-a-bee alter-egos who graciously blessed my life by being there to support and encourage me to keep-on-keeping on when life’s journey found me traveling unpaved roads. An alter ego is defined as one’s second self, a different version of one’s…

  • Someone or Somebody

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    Fred D
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    Today our nation celebrated the National Day of Prayer. The theme was Unity. Yesterday I emailed some folks this picture of an itsy-bitsy spider on a web it had spun above a dew-drenched flower. Zooming in diffused the background creating a weird, psychedelic effect. The National Day of Prayer theme of Unity, and the diametrically…

  • Little Crumbs

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    Fred D
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    My breakfast this morning was 5*****, slowly savoring my ‘favoritest’ pie . . . Strawberry-Rhubarb !!! Loving prepared by my 5***** ‘chefette’ whom I married a decade ago, I never regret pulling-the-plug on my long-term relationship with Marie Callender and her 1* microwave cuisine😊 However, leaving Marie has not been without consequences . . .…