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There are books that we deliberately seek out, and there are books that seem almost to find us. Family Prayers by Henry Thornton was one of those books for me. I discovered it five or six years ago, and it has remained a personal favorite ever since. Thornton’s prayers have that quality I so often […]

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Should I Even Be Writing This?

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I  have not published much here lately. That is not entirely unusual, as my writing has always tended to come in seasons. There have been times when I have written regularly and other times when weeks or months have passed while drafts remained unfinished, ideas accumulated in notebooks, and things I intended to return to […]

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God’s Hidden Arrangement

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I spent this past weekend assembling a detailed 3D book-nook puzzle, one of those miniature architectural scenes made of dozens upon dozens of tiny wooden pieces. Each piece had been precisely cut with notches so small they were nearly invisible, yet every one fit only in a single location. The instructions required an exact order. […]

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A Christ Centered Christmas

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Each year, “Merry Christmas” is spoken more cautiously, if it is spoken at all. In its place, “Happy Holidays” has become the safer greeting, offered under the banner of politeness, neutrality, and inclusiveness. Just last week, after wishing a gentleman “Merry Christmas” over the phone, he replied with a carefully neutral “Happy Holidays.” These exchanges […]

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I Can See Clearly Now – Mark 8:22-28


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[responsivevoice_button] Jesus Heals a Blind Man at Bethsaida 22 Then He came to Bethsaida; and they brought a blind man to Him, and begged Him to touch him. Jesus has been traveling through Gentile territory. He started in Tyre and then he went through Sidon and then to the region of Decapolis on the east side […]

03/27/2018

Walking with Jesus Mark 7:24-37


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[responsivevoice_button] Jesus Goes for a Walk 24  And from there he arose and went away to the region of Tyre and Sidon. ESV The last location mentioned that Jesus had arrived at was Gennesaret where he and his disciples had moored to the shore after the additional wind storm on the Sea of Galilee and the […]

03/13/2018

No More Separation


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We love because he first loved us. – 1 John 4:19 [responsivevoice_button] How I wonder about that far-off land! I wish I could catch a glimpse of it as Moses was allowed to catch a glimpse of the promised land. He led others to it but in the end,  he was unable to enter into […]

02/11/2018

Finding My Way Through Grief


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By his light, I walked through the darkness!  – Job 29:3 About a month after I returned home from Arkansas after care giving for my sister during her short ten month battle with bladder cancer I had a dream that comforted me through a very dark period afterwards. I found comfort in the dream as […]

01/29/2018

Not Lost, But Gone Before, by Margaret Gatty (1809-1873), Parables from Nature


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NOT LOST, BUT GONE BEFORE                 “—Will none of you in pity To those you left behind, disclose the secret?”                                                 BLAIR’S GRAVE. “I WONDER what becomes of the Frog, when he climbs up out of this world, and disappears, so that we do not see even his shadow; till, plop! he is among us again, when […]

01/27/2018

Mourning Meds for Grief’s Journey


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One of the primary things I have learned in my experience with grief, is that grief can be as wicked as cancer. It can cause significant damage in one’s life both internally, spiritually and emotionally, and externally, physically and relationally. I have seen people with strong religious backgrounds abandon their faith in anger and disappointment […]

01/05/2018

Jesus Calms The Storm Mark 4:35-41


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 On that day, when evening had come, he said to them, “Let us go across to the other side.”  Jesus had been teaching many parables about hearing the word of God to a very large crowd who lined the shore of the Sea of Galilee to hear him. He taught these parables, the parable of the […]

12/19/2017

When God Doesn’t Rescue (Philippians 1:12-30)


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“It is the great support and solace of the saints in all the distresses that befall them here, that there is a wise Spirit sitting in all the wheels of motion, and governing the most eccentric creatures, and their most pernicious designs, to blessed and happy issues”. – John Flavel, The Mystery of Providence Paul […]

03/14/2017

I See Thee Still


MourningMeds, Poetry

This poem captures the hope I hold of of seeing my own sister again through Jesus Christ. Going through cancer our journey together was all about hope, hope dashed, hope revived out of ashes, hope that continually survived against the odds. Even when the doctors came to tell us they could offer us no more […]

12/09/2016