Posted 3/3/21 Let not steadfast love and faithfulness forsake you; bind them around your neck; write them on the tablet of your heart.- Proverbs 3:3 But the Lord is faithful, and he will strengthen you and protect you from the evil one. –2 Thessalonians 3:3 Welcome back to our little Cornbread table! 🙂 Just a reminder…
Author: Mark Applegate
Shawshank Re:Dementia Day 355: Dragging Us Along
Posted 3/1/21 There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under the heavens -Ecc. 3:1 Happy Monday to all! 🙂 Just a quick thought or two today since this is Memory Week, the week we set aside for advocacy with state legislators. I will be in and out and up and down the…
Shawshank Re:Dementia Day 352: Are You Inclined?
Posted 2/26/21 For as the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without works is dead also. –James 2:26 Hi all! I trust your week was better this week than last? It was here, for sure. I got to see mom (on the other side of a screen) for the first time in months….
Shawshank Re:Dementia Day 350: “Who, What, Where, Why, When-sday”: Moving in the Right Direction
Posted 2/24/21 He himself bore our sins” in his body on the cross, so that we might die to sins and live for righteousness; “by his wounds you have been healed. 1 Peter 2:24 That is why a man leaves his father and mother and is united to his wife, and they become one flesh.- Genesis 2:24 But God…
Shawshank Re:Dementia Day 348: White to Gray to Black to Clear (to White Again)…and a huge praise
Posted 2/22/21 He reveals deep and hidden things; he knows what lies in darkness, and light dwells with him. –Daniel 2:22 After he was raised from the dead, his disciples recalled what he had said. Then they believed the scripture and the words that Jesus had spoken. –John 2:22 I really wish I had a different topic, I really do….
Shawshank Re:Dementia Day 345: Snow Days and the Need for Unexpected Joy
Posted 2/19/21 (Happy National Caregivers Day!) I know your deeds, your love and faith, your service and perseverance, and that you are now doing more than you did at first. –Revelation 2:19 Howdy Ho, all! Another Friday in Pandemic-dise, or something like that. 🙂 I hope everyone stayed warm and safe during this snowy, terribly cold…
Shawshank Re:Dementia Day 341: (Poem) “Tech on Trial”- A Frustrated Techie’s Anti-Tech Rant
Posted 2/15/21 “Do everything without grumbling or arguing, so that you may become blameless and pure, “children of God without fault in a warped and crooked generation.” Then you will shine among them like stars in the sky. Phil. 2:14-15 Tech On Trial We are only given so much time The older I get, the easier this truth is…
Shawshank Re:Dementia Day 338: Support
Posted 2/12/2021 (Such a cool date with all the 2s and 1s and such. The 0 is a little inconvenient, but it is all good…) “May the Lord repay you for what you have done. May you be richly rewarded by the Lord, the God of Israel, under whose wings you have come to take refuge.” –Ruth 2:12 Support: late 14th…
Shawshank Re:Dementia Day 334: Expect the Unexpected
Posted 2/8/21 See to it that no one takes you captive through hollow and deceptive philosophy, which depends on human tradition and the elemental spiritual forces of this world rather than on Christ. –Colossians 2:8 Hi all! I am super duper sorry to have missed doing an article Friday. I snuck away with my bride and…
Shawshank Re:Dementia Day 327: Countdown to 2021 The Longest Day
Posted 2-1-21 (I love the symmetry of today’s date. I will do something today at 2:12 or perhaps 12:12!) Therefore if you have any encouragement from being united with Christ, if any comfort from his love, if any common sharing in the Spirit, if any tenderness and compassion, –Philippians 2:1 Not much to report today…