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About Stephen Nielsen

I'm an author, a self publisher, and a painting contractor. I live in beautiful Minnesota, USA . Welcome to my blog site.

Update: Divine Encounters

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https://studyingprayer.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/fasting-not.jpg This morning I’m hanging out in one of my favorite places for breakfast: Panera Bread. It’s cool in here but hot outside. It will be 100 degrees today, the hottest day yet. I’ve been…

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Wildflowers and Ferns

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Great White Egret

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https://studyingprayer.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/008.jpg The Great White Egret has a yellow bill and green around the eyes. https://studyingprayer.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/010-2.jpg https://studyingprayer.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/009-1.jpg https://studyingprayer.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/024-1.jpg

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Nature’s Best

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https://studyingprayer.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/007.jpg https://studyingprayer.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/021-3.jpg https://studyingprayer.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/027.jpg https://studyingprayer.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/028.jpg God saw all that He had made, and behold, it was very good (Gen. 1:31).

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Spring Blossoms

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Seeing More Birds

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https://studyingprayer.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/008-2.jpg https://studyingprayer.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/032-2.jpg https://studyingprayer.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/033-2.jpg https://studyingprayer.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/034-2.jpg I’m seeing more birds now. Robins are the easiest to photograph. But those little yellow birds are impossible. They fly away so fast. I’ve got a Robin nest on my living…

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My Great Discovery: I Can Laugh at the Evil World – Psalm 2:4

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https://studyingprayer.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/laughs-god.jpg What does a Christian do in this evil world—with all the progressivism, with constant attacks on conservativism and Christianity, with government mandates, with wokeism, with all the fraud, especially with voting and in the…

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Let My Children Go!

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https://studyingprayer.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/abortion-march.jpg Do you hear that cry from the Lord? It is His cry to families and mothers everywhere, to let all infants in the womb go free—free to live! But still, we have been rebellious…

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Old Houses in Missouri

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https://studyingprayer.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/054.jpg https://studyingprayer.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/055.jpg https://studyingprayer.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/059.jpg https://studyingprayer.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/060.jpg Recently, visiting my sister in Missouri, I ran across these old abandon houses as I was taking a morning walk through the woods.

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Broken in Years

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https://studyingprayer.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/011.jpg I am sad that that old tree has been broken, just as an old life is broken in years. It was a good tree and a good life, even in its old years it…

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