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The Quest for Appearances
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A Mother’s Game Day Prayer
It’s funny how I would never Pray for my favorite NFL, MLB, or NHL Team to Win Of course, you are so much more concerned With the state of your church, and the many lost and hurting souls Than my team’s current rankings I know what you value Yet find myself praying for my son’s soccer, football, or running team To beat the cross-town or cross-state rival Or even worse Praying he will beat out His teammate we have known since elementary or middle school For a varsity spot This pitiful behavior begs the question How do you want me to pray For my son or daughter on game day?…
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When All I Have is a Mustard Seed
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Yes, Exits Are Required
I wasn’t too concerned. We had just driven this a year ago. How difficult can it be? I lived in Dallas for two years without google maps. Did we really need to use it every second? Well, despite my husband’s warnings, I missed two exits. In both cases, I didn’t think we had to turn off at all. I thought the other traffic veered away from us. Nope. I was wrong. Exits are funny things. They take action, a commitment. Once I’ve exited an interstate, I can’t just get right back on. I have to leave that route behind and join a new one. Recently, my department head at the…
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The Waiting Game: Learning to number my days
I couldn’t believe what I was seeing. In a lifetime of living within an hour of this small resort town, I hadn’t seen anything like it. A rare flood engulfing the main street receded, leaving the street filled with river rock-not small river rock, but large rocks requiring heavy equipment to remove them. We thought we were past it, disasters like the one last year that made camping, hiking, and tourist activities difficult. Last summer’s dry conditions left my home state-and this particular town- engulfed in flames and smoke for the majority of the summer and fall. This year, however, we had snow and then rain, and lots of it.…
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This Puzzle Called Life
Nobody likes discomfort, but life in a fallen world guarantees uncertainty. This puzzle we call life requires it. As James tells us, that God is not only with us “when (we) meet trails of various kinds” but will produce “steadfastness” eventually making us “perfect and complete, lacking in nothing”, not one missing piece (James 1:2-4). May we be steadfast as we trust the promises of a God who carried our forefathers through perplexing times when that piece didn’t quite fit until the puzzle maker completes the scene for us in eternity. www.facebook.com/groups/connect.pca.women/permalink/504313166577008
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The Shocking Truth About Easter
It was 1996, and while the Olympic Games were being held in Atlanta, GA, I was teaching 40+ Chinese teenagers in a Soviet-style concrete building with live electric wires running down the halls. It was a hot, June day, and my eager students, usually so quiet I could hear a pin drop, did something that shocked me; they all burst out laughing, uncontrollably. They weren’t trying to be rude like American teens might, I have seen that in my years of teaching. They revered teachers, feared them, really. They were actually in a state of disbelief that caused them to disrupt, lose themselves. Why? What brought this about? That day…
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A Time to Mourn
The teacher in Ecclesiastes tells us there is “a time to mourn” (3:4). But in all reality, life can sometimes feel a lot more like one long mourning period. It seems the longer we live, the more we mourn.
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A Writer’s New Year Prayer
The wisdom to follow your plan for me Instead of the newest blogging recipe pushed out onto Facebook or Twitter The plan made by you to whom I am “Fearfully and wonderfully made” (Psalm 139:14) and The plan that includes “hope and a future” (Jeremiah 29:11) Whether I ever publish my first book Or see my articles reach the world
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What do we need in a world that’s upside down? How about an upside down gospel?
It really is hard to believe. Who could have believed the barrage of change we have seen since last Christmas? Sure, we knew it might be a bit crazy with an unknown virus and a U.S. election. But a pandemic? Countries and states shutdown? Protests, violence and destruction? It’s still a bit much to take in. Not to mention, it’s not over. Much of the change we have experienced is here to say, for the foreseeable future anyway. Many of us still can’t to work, go to school, worship, or travel normally. Our lives have been greatly disrupted. The world is truly upside down. While a lot of us are…