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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myhighplaces22
- Sep 15
- 5 min
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...
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myhighplaces22
- Sep 8
- 4 min
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...
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myhighplaces22
- Sep 1
- 5 min
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....
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myhighplaces22
- Jul 28
- 5 min
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...
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myhighplaces22
- Jul 7
- 2 min
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...
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myhighplaces22
- Jun 30
- 5 min
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...
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myhighplaces22
- Jun 16
- 4 min
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...
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myhighplaces22
- Jun 4
- 5 min
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...
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myhighplaces22
- Jun 2
- 4 min
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...
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myhighplaces22
- May 26
- 4 min
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...
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myhighplaces22
- Apr 28
- 3 min
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...
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myhighplaces22
- Apr 21
- 5 min
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...
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myhighplaces22
- Mar 30
- 3 min
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...
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myhighplaces22
- Mar 18
- 3 min
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...
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myhighplaces22
- Mar 17
- 4 min
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...
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myhighplaces22
- Mar 8
- 3 min
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...
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myhighplaces22
- Mar 3
- 3 min
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....
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myhighplaces22
- Feb 24
- 4 min
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...
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myhighplaces22
- Feb 17
- 5 min
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...
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