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Simply Thankful
story by Laurie Grathen Last year around Thanksgiving I wrote a short post with a little history of the Thanksgiving holiday. This year,...
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Nov 24, 20235 min read
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Are You a Pollyanna or Mrs. Snow?
Story by Kristine Barnes In 1960 there was a movie, based on a best-selling 1913 novel by Eleanor H. Porter, about a young girl who had a...
myhighplaces22
Sep 15, 20235 min read
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Toxic Positivity. Huh??
Story by Laurie Grathen In my post two weeks ago, I recommended you read Dr. Gladys McGarey's book, The Well-Lived Life. I’m doing my...
myhighplaces22
Sep 8, 20234 min read
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Needs and Wants - Getting out of Debt
Story by Randy Grathen “Mom!” “School is starting, I need some new clothes.” “Mom, I need to get one of those new foldable cell phones....
myhighplaces22
Sep 1, 20235 min read
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Is It Ok For Christians To Play The Lottery?
Story by Randy Grathen My wife Laurie wrote a blog post recently about her and a friend musing over all the things they could do if they...
myhighplaces22
Jul 28, 20235 min read
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I Can’t Do This Alone - It’s Not About Me
Well folks, I've run out of stories/testimonials about God's goodness and miraculous interventions in my life. I've shared my thoughts...
myhighplaces22
Jul 7, 20232 min read
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Faith in Marriage
By Carol Mithers Is a common spiritual bond critical to marital health and happiness? When Liz Hammer began dating her husband, Brian, at...
myhighplaces22
Jun 30, 20235 min read
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Just a Coincidence?
Story by: Randy Grathen God knows the end from the beginning... He (Zacchaeus) ran ahead to a place where Jesus would come, and he...
myhighplaces22
Jun 16, 20234 min read
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Be Thankful You Were Not One of Jesus’s Chosen Twelve
Thank you, Tina Campbell & Jeremy Spring for your invaluable contribution to this story. No modern secular historian would challenge the...
myhighplaces22
Jun 4, 20235 min read
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Why Did Jesus Say It?
Story by Randy Grathen When Laurie and I moved to Camdenton, Missouri we started church shopping. We attended several. Organ music with a...
myhighplaces22
Jun 2, 20234 min read
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Redneck Wisdom - an Oxymoron
story by Randy Grathen Things I’ve learned... Wisdom - There are only two ways to get it. Live long enough, or hang out with someone...
myhighplaces22
May 26, 20234 min read
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A Lesson in “Suffering"
Story by Kristine Barnes In August 2020 serious arthritis in my left thumb became really irritating. I had a friend with a similar...
myhighplaces22
Apr 28, 20233 min read
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I peeked behind the curtain, what did I see…?
Bilderbergers, Illuminati, FEMA Camps. Race-baiting, Illegal Immigration, NSA, FBI, CIA. Global Warming, Climate Change, gas prices, N1H1...
myhighplaces22
Apr 21, 20235 min read
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The Habit of Solitude
By Kristine Barnes NOTE: In 2019 I wrote a note to my daughters, Myndi the one God allowed me to give birth to, and Karen the...
myhighplaces22
Mar 30, 20233 min read
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God Doesn’t Make Us Believe
By Randy Grathen (Thank you Wendy) Have you noticed that God doesn’t make us? You know, when something happens, and you think it might...
myhighplaces22
Mar 18, 20233 min read
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How do I know you are you?
by: Randy Grathen In our modern society we need identification for all kinds of things. When we’re born we get a birth certificate - our...
myhighplaces22
Mar 17, 20234 min read
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Foreigner in a Foreign Land
By: Randy Grathen I just read Acts 10 & 11. Peter was telling the Apostles why he took the message of salvation to the Gentiles. 15"And...
myhighplaces22
Mar 8, 20233 min read
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Everybody's Got a Story
By: Randy Grathen Our High Places is about all of us - not just me. I shared my stories because God urged me for years to share them....
myhighplaces22
Mar 3, 20233 min read
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There Will Never be Another You.
Story by: Randy Grathen There was a young woman at our church who had just become a Christian. A friend suggested she could use some...
myhighplaces22
Feb 24, 20234 min read
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A Look Through the Rearview Mirror
Story by Randy Grathen I was thinking about what an amazing journey my life has been. I have an awesome marriage to the love of my life...
myhighplaces22
Feb 17, 20235 min read
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