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Wednesday, December 7, 2011

Simple Homecraft: Knitting for Charity

Simple Homecraft: Knitting for Charity: Our Knitter's Guild's Christmas project this year is to support a local Ontario organization - called Links2Care . Links2Care is a comm...

Simple Homecraft: Squash Time

Simple Homecraft: Squash Time: It's squash season....and I'm learning a lot about squash these days. I never realized there were so many varieties. I used to shop for...

Simple Homecraft: Homemade Christmas Series #1 : DIY Christmas Plant...

Simple Homecraft: Homemade Christmas Series #1 : DIY Christmas Plant...: Growing up the Christmas lights were magical to us as kids. We would play outside for hours in the cold evenings under a big spruce tree in...

Tuesday, December 6, 2011

Welcome to Prison Fellowship

Welcome to Prison Fellowship
This is taken from Streams in the Desert by Mrs. Charles E. Cowman, The Oriental Missionary Society, Los Angeles, California, 1948.

"Show Love
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There are many lives that creak and grate harshly as they live day by day.  Nothing goes right with them.  They need libricating with the oil of gladness, gentleness, or thoughtfulness.  Have you your own can of oil with you?  Be ready with your oil of helpfulness in the early morning to the one nearest you.  It may lubricate the whole day for him.  The oil, of good cheer to the downhearted one-Oh, how much it may mean!  The word courage to the despairing.  Speak it."