Crystal Manget
HEALTHY?
Since August last year I have been trying to lose my 19-year-old baby weight. No, not trying to get rid of the kid, just the pounds that I seem to have kept after she left my body. I guess technically I lost it, but it came back. So, after getting bored with Jenny Craig, I…
Devotions
Are you a devotional type of person? I am, have been since I was in High School. I loved reading devotions at night before I went to bed. I started buying books when I got married. Before that I used whatever the church had on hand. I love hearing what other writers have to say…
COFFEE WITH GOD
Psalm 143:8 Let me hear in the morning of your steadfast love, for in you I trust. Make me know the way I should go, for you I lift up my soul. I love a quiet morning, just me, my dog, my Bible, a cup of coffee and the birds singing to me. My coffee…
STRESSED OUT
“Your blood pressure is a little high. Are you under stress?” My doctor recently asked me this question. Let’s see, I drove down 280 in the morning to get to your office. No, no stress there. I had to get completely naked for my exam, no none there either. I know what you are going…
CENSORED
Biting one’s tongue, chewing on the inside of one’s cheek, counting to ten—all of these are a form of censorship. What is your technique? Mine? I have conversations with myself in my head about all the things I want to say. I have been asked why I look angry all the time. I am not…
Comparison
Advertisements dare us to compare their prices to others’ prices. We are encouraged to compare our houses and even our lives to others through the “keeping up with the Jones” comic strip. (A newspaper cartoon from 1913-1940.) It was designed to motivate us to succeed and pass the Jones. Well, I do not know how…
Calm Before The Storm
The east coast is preparing for a hurricane right now. Category 4 in strength, it stretches approximately 300 miles across. Frightening in its size and power. I have had a verse floating around in my head for a couple of weeks thanks to a t-shirt add on Facebook. It is not actually a verse, sounds…
There’s Something About Eve
Eve, formally known as Woman. Woman came from man but was created by God for man. The beauty of the Garden of Eden was spectacular, breathtaking. Based on how our (women) bodies contridict man’s, Eve must have been equally breathtaking. God brought her to man. Man didn’t just “find” her, she was gifted to him…
