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God’s Blessed Surprises

God’s Blessed Surprises

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I spent an exciting weekend recently speaking to Wordwrights, a Christian writers group from Oklahoma City. We met at a home of one of the members near Mulhall, OK. Donna and her sister, Gloria, run a restful retreat center called Yonderland the Way Station on their property. I love speaking to writers. There is an amazing synergism of creativity that happens when writers gather. God filled our time together with unexpected surprises above and beyond our expectations. Friday night my hostess…

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A Very Blessed Day

A Very Blessed Day

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Some days are full of surprises–Like Christmas, only no one told you it was coming. I had one of those last Friday and Saturday. I was packing to go to a writer’s conference with my friend Rebecca when the phone rang. “Mrs. Jadlow, this is Larry Gunderson. Could I stop by for a minute?” “Sure!” Larry grew up next door to us. He came in from St. Louis for a funeral. We chatted for a little while before he had…

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Life in Ottawa, KS

Life in Ottawa, KS

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While Uncle Sam shipped Dad to France and then Germany during WW II, Mom and I stayed in Ottawa, Kansas. Here we are in front of our home at 212 W. 5th. The house still stands today. Mom managed a clothing store there. She hired a sitter, Leota, who was probably in her late 50s at the time. She’d never married. Usually Leota took care of elderly people. I proved to be quite a handful for this dear lady who…

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