Tag: Stella Payton

A GIFT CALLED TODAY

by Shauna Niequist (This is long but it’s a good read. NOTES IN PARENTHESIS ARE ADDED BY STELLA) “believe that this way of living, this focus on the present, the daily, the tangible, this intense concentration not on the news headlines but on the flowers growing in your own garden, the children growing in your […]

WATCH YOUR MOUTH!

My tongue has kept me in trouble most of my life. I think I was born with a propensity to say exactly what I thought MUCH to my mothers dismay. My mother’s constant words for me were “Watch your mouth!” I recall an occasion where several missionaries and deacons had come to have dinner at our house one Sunday after […]

WORDS SMELL!

WORDS have a scent …  … a smell. Some smell of death. Death words attract flies. They are the servants of Beelzebub or “lord of the flies” also known as lucifer. These flies hover around people who say things that produce death. Death of dreams, death of goals, death of life, death of hopes, death […]