January 2024

Saline County Early Days

It wouldn’t be Christmas if schools, churches and programs didn’t celebrate the Christmas season throughout the county. Lots of rehearsals and despite how unprofessional the presentation may have been – it was loved and remembered through personal memories and pictures, later to be found in old albums and scrapbooks, but very special to all.

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Lending a hand

It’s a cold and frosty morning here in the holler. As I watched the small flame dancing in the woodstove and wondered if I should bring in additional wood for the cold day ahead, I was reminded of the many people who once populated this area.

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New resource in the fight against smoking

With the arrival of the New Year comes a slew of new resolutions that are met with good intentions, but often fall short. By the time you read this article, you may be five days into the fight of your life as you resolved to end your addiction to cigarette smoking. Few resolutions are harder to achieve, but thankfully there is a new resource that you may be unaware of that can provide assistance in the fight against nicotine. The Department of Health and Senior Services (DHSS) has implemented a new website called Missouri Tobacco Quit Services with resources to help. You can find the website at Missouri. quitlogix.org. The website has a chat feature where you can connect with a personal coach, and a toll free 800 number has been established as well. You can call (800) QUIT-NOW (7848669).

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Stand with Israel

Our spiritual lives, living our daily religious walk, should be intimately tied to Israel because Israel belongs to the one true God. Our journeys of faith may be like Jacob’s ladder, sometimes up and sometimes down, but the constant goal is to love the Lord and to obtain eternal life. Like Jacob’s ladder, our spiritual lives are to be set up on the earth. Mutzav is the Hebrew word for set up and derives from the root, to be firm, unwavering. Our spirituality should be rooted in being firmly placed on the ground to be able to climb. It is that foundation that we are enabled to ascend as part of our spiritual journey. Our spiritual life may follow a pattern, but our commitment to Israel and the Jews should be as constant as our faith in Jesus/Yeshua.

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