Month: September 2013

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Sep 24, 2013

What freedom costs, how Heaven comes down to a nation

FacebookTwitterGoogle+DiggPinterestBloggerAt the school just up the road, the room is packed. It’s National Anthem Day, and the gym’s awash in a sea of red, white and blue. I slip in

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Sep 23, 2013

What the stars say (shine on)

Overhead on a blanket of night, they shine. A thousand thousand stars, pinpricks of gold sprinkled near, scattered far.  They’re all shining, bearing witness. I breathe it in, all this

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Sep 17, 2013

Mother draws red line of her own, says ‘no’ to chemical weapons

The headlines have been full of it. With things heating up in what some call “the big sandbox over there,” the nation is looking to President Obama, his minions and

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Sep 16, 2013

When it’s okay to sit

Sitting there at the round corner table, small lamp spilling gold across the page, I quiet. He speaks, that shepherd boy of old; speaks for me: “Restore us, O God;

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Sep 10, 2013

Mr. GPS finds girl with “funny eyes,” looks for solace in chocolate cake

Mr. Schrock came wired with it. In an odd twist of fate, genetics or some inexplicable cosmic mutation, he was born with a unit in place. Why he showed up

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Sep 09, 2013

What the banner says

The results that returned were crushing. It was cancer, widespread and malicious. Roaring in like a wildfire with a searing heat, flames devouring, it blazed right through, and in several

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Sep 05, 2013

There’s power in the Name (what Father wants you to know)

It was a photograph of Jesus, a portrait created by a young girl who’d died, gone to Heaven and come back. Jesus, He with the eyes shining kindness. Shining love.

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Sep 03, 2013

I can’t find your transmission, but I can spell that one word

He’d awakened, miserable. “I couldn’t get to sleep,” he said, scratching an arm. It’s so itchy.” Sure enough. On legs, arms and chest, red blotches had broken out. “That’s not

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