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For the last two weeks, Carl and I have been serving as election officials during early voting, and what a blessing it has been! Next Tuesday, I\u2019ll be an election judge on the official voting day \u2014 so yes, you could say I\u2019ve been promoted to \u201cJudge Noble.\u201d (I promise not to let it go to my head!)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Our polling place was tucked inside the Spicewood Springs Library<\/strong>, and in between the ebb and flow of voters, I found myself wandering through that peaceful haven. Now, I\u2019ll confess \u2014 it\u2019s been a long time since I\u2019ve used a library card that wasn\u2019t digital. I\u2019ve checked out audiobooks on the Libby app for road trips, but it\u2019s been years since I\u2019ve walked the aisles of an actual library.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Oh, what I\u2019ve been missing!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now, I\u2019ll confess \u2014 it\u2019s been a long time since I\u2019ve used a library card that wasn\u2019t digital. I\u2019ve checked out audiobooks on the Libby app for road trips, but it\u2019s been years since I\u2019ve walked the aisles of an actual library.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A library is a treasure chest of quiet wonder \u2014 a peaceful space filled with books, stories, and wisdom from every corner of the world. I browsed through shelves of faith writers and thinking, Donna, why have you been buying books online when you could have borrowed them here for free? (Yes, I gave myself a talking-to right there in the inspirational section.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then came the sweetest discovery \u2014 the children\u2019s area. There sat parents with their little ones, surrounded by stacks of books, their faces lit by imagination instead of a screen. It reminded me that learning, like faith, grows best when we make time for it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Maybe that\u2019s why God led me there. Amid all the busyness of elections and news cycles, He reminded me that His Word is the ultimate library \u2014 always available, always free, and always life-giving.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cYour Word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path.\u201d \u2014 Psalm 119:105<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, I think I\u2019ll keep my library card handy\u2026 but my Bible even closer. Both open the mind \u2014 but only One truly lights the way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

God\u2019s Word and a good library \u2014 two of life\u2019s sweetest teachers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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For the last two weeks, Carl and I have been serving as election officials during early voting, and what a blessing it has been! Next Tuesday, I\u2019ll be an election judge on the official voting day \u2014 so yes, you could say I\u2019ve been promoted to \u201cJudge Noble.\u201d (I promise not to let it go…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23121,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[4711,15150,1210,756,1769,1160,32731,1392,40,13603,32733,18928,32734,2566,32732,3489,11749],"class_list":["post-23120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-app","tag-audiobooks","tag-blog","tag-children","tag-christian","tag-election","tag-election-judge","tag-facebook","tag-inspiration","tag-lessons","tag-libby","tag-library","tag-library-card","tag-parents","tag-spicewood","tag-spring","tag-treasure-chest"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23120","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23120"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23120\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23126,"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23120\/revisions\/23126"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/23121"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}