by Marie | Advice, Devotionals, Faith, Learn, Life, Marie Wells Coutu, Mended Vessels, Trust, Truth
How gullible can I be? Seems like I’m willing to try all kinds of remedies to lose weight, look younger, or get rid of brown spots, skin tags, and spiders. Can you relate? Apple cider vinegar will help me lose weight? Tried it. (Nope, didn’t work. Maybe...
by Marie | Devotionals, Faith, Life, Marie Wells Coutu, Ministry, Truth, Words
To a writer, words are the tools of the trade. We agonize over finding just the right word to convey a specific meaning. Don’t use “walked” when “strode,” “shuffled,” or “ambled” is a better fit. Sometimes,...
by Marie | Crowds, Devotionals, Eclipse, Eternity, Faith, Life, Marie Wells Coutu, Mended Vessels, Such a Moment, Trust, Truth
Are you one of the millions of people in the path of totality for the eclipse today? Is there a crowd where you were, or did you watch it with just a few people? In my hometown of Hopkinsville, Kentucky–one of the sites with the longest duration of...
by Marie | Advice, Devotionals, Faith, Learn, Life, Marie Wells Coutu, Such a Moment, Truth
If you Google “things I learned from,” you get more than 200 million possible results. You can find posts about things I learned from my mother, my sister, my patients. From watching movies, from Winnie the Pooh, from a cow. Then there’s the...
by Marie | Faith, Joy, Life, Marie Wells Coutu, Self-identity, Such a Moment, Truth
Have you Googled your name lately? We tried to find an old friend recently on Facebook, but his name is so common that it’s difficult to identify the right individual. That got me to thinking about names. Googling your own name can bring up all kinds of...
by Marie | Devotionals, Faith, Life, Marie Wells Coutu, Such a Moment, Truth
Doesn’t it seem like our whole society has devolved into this: what’s in it for me? That’s the impression I sometimes have, based on incidents like these: Food pantries are intended to help low-income people. Some accept only the food items they...
