More About the Patriot and the Loyalist by Angela Couch


Surrender issues? Sorry, Julie, but surrendering chocolate is easy for me—not that I have given it up completely. If only that were true! Life issues . . . now that’s a different matter. The first time I had to go in for surgery, I tried to bargain with the doctor for a way to remain…
Thankful Jesus cares about us The day I arrived on earth I entered a family swarming with children. Escapees from the Kansas Dust Bowl and the Great Depression, some of my older brothers and sisters weren’t excited about an addition to the family. The house where I was born was tucked against the red-rocked…
Living free after a miscarriage. This is a post I’ve tackled before but I’ve switched my blog server around enough that it’s something I thought I’d revisit. Earlier this month I confessed that I used to hate January 2nd. One year I had a $12,000 car accident while 10 weeks into a high risk pregnancy….
Being thankful is a choice we make. Rather than complaining about what we don’t have, we chose to be thankful for what we do have. Paul said it best in Philippians 4:13: “I have learned the secret of being content in any and every situation, whether well fed or hungry, whether living in plenty or…
“They will be like a tree planted by the water that sends out its roots by the stream. It does not fear when heat comes; its leaves are always green. It has no worries in a year of drought and never fails to bear fruit.” Jeremiah 17:8 *** As wars and rumors of war increase, as disease…
This is a re-post from May 2011, the Saturday before Mother’s Day. Tomorrow can range in several scenarios. I remember as a kid riding down a country road seeing a woman pushing a lawnmower. She looked hot and tired and what I remember the most was who was watching—a man I guessed to be her…
Surrender issues? Sorry, Julie, but surrendering chocolate is easy for me—not that I have given it up completely. If only that were true! Life issues . . . now that’s a different matter. The first time I had to go in for surgery, I tried to bargain with the doctor for a way to remain…
Thankful Jesus cares about us The day I arrived on earth I entered a family swarming with children. Escapees from the Kansas Dust Bowl and the Great Depression, some of my older brothers and sisters weren’t excited about an addition to the family. The house where I was born was tucked against the red-rocked…
Living free after a miscarriage. This is a post I’ve tackled before but I’ve switched my blog server around enough that it’s something I thought I’d revisit. Earlier this month I confessed that I used to hate January 2nd. One year I had a $12,000 car accident while 10 weeks into a high risk pregnancy….
Being thankful is a choice we make. Rather than complaining about what we don’t have, we chose to be thankful for what we do have. Paul said it best in Philippians 4:13: “I have learned the secret of being content in any and every situation, whether well fed or hungry, whether living in plenty or…
“They will be like a tree planted by the water that sends out its roots by the stream. It does not fear when heat comes; its leaves are always green. It has no worries in a year of drought and never fails to bear fruit.” Jeremiah 17:8 *** As wars and rumors of war increase, as disease…
This is a re-post from May 2011, the Saturday before Mother’s Day. Tomorrow can range in several scenarios. I remember as a kid riding down a country road seeing a woman pushing a lawnmower. She looked hot and tired and what I remember the most was who was watching—a man I guessed to be her…
Surrender issues? Sorry, Julie, but surrendering chocolate is easy for me—not that I have given it up completely. If only that were true! Life issues . . . now that’s a different matter. The first time I had to go in for surgery, I tried to bargain with the doctor for a way to remain…
Thankful Jesus cares about us The day I arrived on earth I entered a family swarming with children. Escapees from the Kansas Dust Bowl and the Great Depression, some of my older brothers and sisters weren’t excited about an addition to the family. The house where I was born was tucked against the red-rocked…
Living free after a miscarriage. This is a post I’ve tackled before but I’ve switched my blog server around enough that it’s something I thought I’d revisit. Earlier this month I confessed that I used to hate January 2nd. One year I had a $12,000 car accident while 10 weeks into a high risk pregnancy….
Being thankful is a choice we make. Rather than complaining about what we don’t have, we chose to be thankful for what we do have. Paul said it best in Philippians 4:13: “I have learned the secret of being content in any and every situation, whether well fed or hungry, whether living in plenty or…
“They will be like a tree planted by the water that sends out its roots by the stream. It does not fear when heat comes; its leaves are always green. It has no worries in a year of drought and never fails to bear fruit.” Jeremiah 17:8 *** As wars and rumors of war increase, as disease…
This is a re-post from May 2011, the Saturday before Mother’s Day. Tomorrow can range in several scenarios. I remember as a kid riding down a country road seeing a woman pushing a lawnmower. She looked hot and tired and what I remember the most was who was watching—a man I guessed to be her…