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Eileen Birth

Eileen is the communications directory for the Hawkeye SDA Church. But she is so much more: Country Girl, Faithful Wife, Mother of 4 Boys, and a Women looking for God in all the right places – the “little” areas of life.

Articles by Eileen Birth

  • I love sparkles and glitter!

    I love sparkles and glitter!

      Many years ago, a very young girl grew up with a name that she truly didn’t like. For years, she tried to ignore her name. She did not like the name that her mother and father, mostly mother, had given her. When she went to school, she began to realize that not many people had ever heard…

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  • God looks within me and sees my scars of illness and sin!

    God looks within me and sees my scars of illness and sin!

      Over the past three years I have done something that I have not had much experience doing for most of my life. I have managed to exist until recently without having to have more than a couple of X-Rays—that I can remember. And both of those were because I had taken a major fall—at…

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  • I loved my Daddy!

    I loved my Daddy!

      When You Need a Faithful Father What comes to your mind when I say the word “father”? To me, my father meant many different things. He was my example, my favorite funny man with all his puns and fun with words, my mother’s husband and my dream of what a husband should be, my role model, my math helper…

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  • What would Jesus do?

    What would Jesus do?

      I had several moments this past week of being reminded that I am getting older! Those moments are not always good reminders either. I am younger in my mind than my body truly is. That means that I can’t do some of the things that I think I can do. I have to think…

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  • Where is my “in a place”?

    Where is my “in a place”?

      This week, three little words got my attention–“In a place.” Those three words were in a paragraph I found in an email. “Our relation to the natural world takes place in a place.” The American poet Gary Snyder wrote those words. I don’t think he’s wrong. Every time we harvest a wild mushroom, we do…

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  • God gave me some blessings while I am learning to walk!

    God gave me some blessings while I am learning to walk!

      Many blessings came to me this past week. Spring blessings bring joy. Other seasons have joy found in them, but it always seems that spring is just more joyous as the world wakes up from winter. The birds sound happier. The spring peeper frogs sing with joyous peeping and our kitties are so glad to…

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  • We can do it!!

    We can do it!!

      This past weekend we were able to spend some days away from home. It was the first time in nearly 3 years that we have tried to go somewhere longer than a couple of hours from our home. That meant it was quite an excursion for us, and we had to “remember” how to…

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  • Does Jesus Care?

    Does Jesus Care?

      With the time of year that the world celebrates what is called Easter having just passed, it is a good time to evaluate life—in particular my life. This past week had me doing that in several ways and gave me lots to think about. I spent a good portion of the week before being…

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  • Gloom and despair and agony!

    Gloom and despair and agony!

      Many years ago, my family enjoyed a program called Hee Haw. If you are familiar with it, you remember that there was a lot to find amusing and give moments of laughter in watching it. You had to enjoy guitar and banjo music to enjoy listening to the music and fun. And I imagine…

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  • Daily changing and growing!

    Daily changing and growing!

      Recently we were privileged to have visitors in our home. One of those visitors was a small, almost 3-year-old. But while he seems so young in my very old eyes, it impresses me on how much I can see big changes in him with every visit! He has gone from being so very shy and…

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