http://www.lisabogart.com/ A Hiker's Devotional Thoughts by Lisa Bogart en-us http://www.lisabogart.com/entries.asp?ENTRY_ID=118This entry is a rerun I was thinking of nostalgically. It still captures the way I am feeling the week before Christmas. Please enjoy. T’was the week before Christmas and all through the house There were unfinished projects, making me grouse. Some presents were wrapped with extra good...http://www.lisabogart.com/entries.asp?ENTRY_ID=117“For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the Lord, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you a hope and a future. Then you will call upon me and come to pray to me and I will listen to you.” Jeremiah 29:11-12 Most folks this week are getting ready for Thanksgiving....http://www.lisabogart.com/entries.asp?ENTRY_ID=116I am a bit of a klutz. I have never broken a bone but I am forever spilling things. I try to be careful. I try take safety precautions and still there is a mess. I sat down to dinner wearing a new white shirt. The thought crossed my mind I should change my shirt, put on an apron, or at the very...http://www.lisabogart.com/entries.asp?ENTRY_ID=115When my son, Zach, was 2 we asked my mom to come take care of him for our anniversary weekend. It would be the first time my husband and I left him overnight. We were excited for the break and looking forward to a rest and reconnection as a couple. Mom arrived a day ahead so I could show her the...http://www.lisabogart.com/entries.asp?ENTRY_ID=114November 4, 2008 will be a date we mark in history as the first time we elected a Hawaiian as president. Oh and he happens to be a black man too. I am not a political follower but like many others this election has made me take notice. I got tears in my eyes watching Barack Obama and his family on...http://www.lisabogart.com/entries.asp?ENTRY_ID=113She selects wool and flax and works with eager hands. Proverbs 31:13 May the favor of the Lord our God rest upon us, establish the work of our hands for us, yes establish the work of our hands. Psalm 90:17 Hands busy with God’s work. Count me in! Sign me up for something big and wonderful....http://www.lisabogart.com/entries.asp?ENTRY_ID=112We are hard pressed on every side, but not crushed; perplexed, but not in despair; persecuted, but not abandoned; stuck down but not destroyed. 2 Corinthians 4:8-9 Two for one sale! I tossed a couple pints of red raspberries in my shopping cart. Yum! Later as I unpacked the groceries I popped...http://www.lisabogart.com/entries.asp?ENTRY_ID=111In case you think your job is small . . . here’s a reminder that is it NOT Neither rain nor sleet nor dark of night shall keep the post man from his appointed rounds. Neither heat nor hail nor postal increases shall stop the mail from moving through your neighborhood. Ruth is retiring! Our...http://www.lisabogart.com/entries.asp?ENTRY_ID=110Paul Newman died Friday Sept. 26, 2008. I heard it on the radio news. I was sad. I thought about his wife Joanne Woodward, 50 years of marriage and now she’s without her mate. I thought of no more movies with old blue eyes. I remembered Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, the very first R rated...http://www.lisabogart.com/entries.asp?ENTRY_ID=109If you have kids you’ve gone to a back to school night this fall. I went to high school last week. There I was with all the other parents changing classes and getting lost in the halls. I like to go. It’s the only time I will see these teachers. I like to put a face to the name my son will talk...