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Our Cozy Home No. 83

Friday, May 27, 2022 (Updated: Monday, October 6, 2025)
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It’s Memorial Day weekend here in the United States. If you are an American, I hope you have a good weekend and take a few moments to remember those who gave their lives in service to our country. The America section of my shop is filled with …

Category: Our Cozy Home This WeekTag: Hermann Seeger (Artist)

Pressing On In Faith During Difficult Times

Wednesday, May 25, 2022 (Updated: Wednesday, February 25, 2026)
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How are you doing? I mean that sincerely. How are you holding up these days? I listened to a series of three videos this morning in which the YouTuber read out details submitted by followers from around they country (and world). They outlined many of …

Category: Our Family LifeTag: Faith | Trusting God

Free and Inexpensive Staycation Activities

Monday, May 23, 2022 (Updated: Friday, June 26, 2026)
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The cost of gas and food this summer will price many families out of a typical go-away-for-a-week vacation. But you can still enjoy a variety of activities while on a staycation. In fact, you may discover your family actually prefers the opportunity …

Category: Family Economy

Isaiah 40:12-32

Monday, May 23, 2022 (Updated: Friday, June 26, 2026)
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Isaiah 40:12-32 Who has measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, or marked off the heavens with the span of his hand? Who has held the dust of the earth in a basket, or weighed the mountains on a scale and the hills with a balance? Who has …

Category: Bible PassagesTag: Isaiah (Bible)

Living By Faith | Streams in the Desert

Saturday, May 21, 2022
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Living By Faith by Mrs. Charles E. Cowman “The just shall live by faith.” (Heb. 10:38). Seemings and feelings are often substituted for faith. Pleasurable emotions and deep satisfying experiences are part of the Christian life, but they …

Category: Streams in the Desert DevotionalsTag: Hebrews (Bible)

Our Cozy Home No. 82

Friday, May 20, 2022 (Updated: Monday, October 6, 2025)
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Happy Friday! I hope you had a good week, whatever that might mean in your world. Mine was good and moderately productive. The weather this week was weird. It got so chilly at one point we turned the heat back on. We’ve had the AC on, then off, …

Category: Our Cozy Home This WeekTag: Johann Baptist Hofner (Artist)

Psalm 86

Tuesday, May 17, 2022 (Updated: Friday, June 26, 2026)
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Psalm 86 Incline Your ear, LORD, and answer me; For I am afflicted and needy. Protect my soul, for I am godly; You my God, save Your servant who trusts in You. Be gracious to me, Lord, For I call upon You all day long. Make the soul of Your …

Category: Bible PassagesTag: Psalms (Bible)

Psalm 71

Tuesday, May 17, 2022 (Updated: Friday, June 26, 2026)
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Psalm 71 In you, O LORD, do I take refuge; let me never be put to shame! In your righteousness deliver me and rescue me; incline your ear to me, and save me! Be to me a rock of refuge, to which I may continually come; you have given the command to …

Category: Bible PassagesTag: Psalms (Bible)

Our Cozy Home No. 81

Friday, May 13, 2022 (Updated: Friday, June 26, 2026)
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This was a strange week. It felt a bit like trying to slog through something. I’m not sure what. Fatigue? Fog of war? I’m not sure. But here we are on Friday. First off, I wanted to share the full view of this artwork by William Adolphe …

Category: Digital Simplicity | Our Cozy Home This Week | Twice-Exceptional (2e)Tag: Linux | William-Adolphe Bouguereau (Artist)

Psalm 139

Friday, May 13, 2022 (Updated: Friday, June 26, 2026)
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Psalm 139 O LORD, You have searched me and known me. You know when I sit and when I rise; You understand my thoughts from afar. You search out my path and my lying down; You are aware of all my ways. Even before a word is on my tongue, You know all …

Category: Bible PassagesTag: Imprecatory Psalms (Bible)
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I’m Sallie — wife, mother, just-retired homeschooler, and curator of my home. Our little family lives a quiet and cozy life of home education, self-employment, and pithy exchanges. I’ve been writing here for 20+ years about Truth, Goodness, and Beauty. And I like to laugh. A lot. Start here. ♥

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