Blog - Tracy M. Smith

19 Jul

Last Man Standing

trsmith Blog, family members, God, Hope, Loss, Older People 5 1

My husband and I were in the mall. He was getting his watch fixed. I needed to sit down so I went back into the mall. Suddenly I realized I was talking to myself. Out loud. When I went home, I wrote this poem. Little old lady, sitting all alone, Talking to herself, ’cause she doesn’t have a phone. No one to call, there’s nobody home. One by one they left her, and now they’re all gone. Gone are the…..

18 Feb

Who Says?

trsmith Bible, Blog, FakeNews, Lying, Success, Truth 2 0

Here’s a news flash for you: people lie. People lie all the time. I was very fortunate as a young girl. I had one of those faces that said, “I’m lying, and you know it.” Actually, I was doubly fortunate, because my mother told me, “Don’t even try to lie. It’s written all over your face.” So I was stuck with telling the truth. I just wish everybody else was stuck with the truth, too. I found that the best…..

14 Feb

A Laugh In Time

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A friend asked how I survived the events I wrote about in my book, “Choosing Life.’ Believe me, what I wrote about was the tip of the iceberg. We’ve all heard about “a stitch in time saving nine.” Well, a laugh in time can save your life. I found a way to laugh at just about anything. Laughter keeps you from taking yourself and everything else too seriously. My struggle with the temptation of suicide started at ten years old. …..

08 Feb

Welcome Home

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In my book, “Choosing Life,” I mentioned how much I enjoyed school. Learning, really. I loved history and geography. One of my teachers told a story about a train ride through Europe. There were four passengers in her compartment. The only language they had in common was Latin, so they conversed in Latin. I studied about the world, and I longed to see every bit of it. I wanted to climb the steps to the Parthenon, sit in the Coliseum,…..

12 Sep

Worry Warts

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One thing I will never have to worry about is running out of problems. I have a computer. And just when I get everything under “control,” I have to get a new computer with a new operating system that changes everything. Well, I got Windows 8.1, and now I can’t do anything I used to do. It has been set up to run like Windows 7, with the icons and a menu. But, my precious husband also uses my computer. …..

05 Sep

Sour Grapes

trsmith Blog, Commandments, family members, God, Godly heritage, Heaven, Obedience, Responsibility, Ungodly Heritage 1 0

My “To Do” list for when I get to Heaven is growing. The first hundred years, I want to stand on the Mount of Olives overlooking the New Jerusalem and praise God for His faithfulness and loving kindness and mercy to me. Then I have to find Ezekiel. I have to tell him that I read his book, and that what he said set me free from believing that I was under a curse from my father. I don’t know…..

07 Jun

The Perfect Church

trsmith Allergies, Blog, Church, Divorce, Feelings, Hypocrites, Jesus, Lord, Perfection, Worship 3 1

I remember a pastor telling the story of a man who went from church to church trying to find the perfect church. The pastor told him, “Well, if you find it, don’t join it, because you’ll ruin it.” How true. We, as believers, are not perfect. We would like to be, but we all have a human nature. We go to church because we love the Lord and want to be together to worship Him. Why don’t you go to…..

31 May

No Earthly Good

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Too heavenly minded, and no earthly good. We’ve all heard it. It strikes fear in our hearts that we could become so interested in things that are “holy” that we will become genuine oddballs to our friends and family. I remember the first time I heard the message that Jesus’ death on the cross was payment for our sins and that we needed to ask for His forgiveness and accept that payment for ourselves personally. I had just graduated from…..

23 May

Nobody

trsmith Blog, Evil, humanity, Jesus, Lying, satisfaction, Terrorism, Truth 1 1

I was just listening to an Ex-Jihadi talk about his experience. He was drawn into becoming a terrorist. He said, “You can go from being a nobody to becoming a hero who will be remembered overnight.” Wow! That struck me for several reasons. First, how do you want to be remembered? Do you want to be remembered for doing something pure evil? Wouldn’t it be better to be forgotten forever than to be remembered for doing something horrible? I remember…..

16 May

Too Thin

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You can never be too thin. Oh, yes, you can. My sister-in-law, Pearl, was a tall, thin, beautiful woman, extremely intelligent. At five foot seven inches tall, she weighed one hundred and twelve pounds. If you are jealous, don’t worry, so was I. Pearl made it look so easy. Then, in her eighties, she developed Hodgkins disease. After chemotherapy, Pearl dropped to eighty pounds. She really was a skeleton with skin, and she had no resources left. After a few…..

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