Month: November 2013

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Nov 27, 2013

For what I Am is doing, thanks-giving

“Sometimes,” she said it to me only today, “when I start the morning, I say to Him, ‘Lord, I feel like I’m just saying it again.’” We were talking, my

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Nov 26, 2013

Writer shocked, envious to learn that men can actually think “nothing”

For an entire year, they’d been in my head. Ever since the message had come, they’d huddled there, waiting, expectant in the back of my fertile brain. It was in

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Nov 22, 2013

When you need cheetah speed and Jesus power

This after-school news is delivered in a matter-of-fact, businesslike tone.  I’m listening intently. He continues. “So we did pushups and jumping jacks and we ran. I was the fastest.  I

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Nov 19, 2013

Heaven shines down at death of a neighbor

“It looks like Heaven’s shining down.” That’s what he says, my little boy with eyes of clearest blue. It’s Sunday morning, and we’re on our way to church. I look

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Nov 18, 2013

When the earth shakes beneath and dreams shatter instant, Emmanuel

In the first set, buildings. Barns, houses, a shed. Twisted steel, crumpled metal and roofs ripped and flung, lying scattered over the farmyard. In one of them, a semi, pulling

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Nov 15, 2013

When you need to be saved from more than the hot place

Driving along, though in the predawn darkness, for once I’m sitting, quiet. No “good morning, Father” on silent lips. Just–tired. Dis-couraged. A bit down. Physically, not top-of-my-game. Then He speaks.“Talk

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Nov 12, 2013

Tricks and treats a fact of life on The Three

It wasn’t a holiday we celebrated, exactly. After all, life here was a succession of their tricks and my treats. It was just how we rolled on The Three. With

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Nov 08, 2013

How the world gets fed

Pulling in to start our shift, I’m taking it in. There in the vast parking lot of our church, semis sit in a row, laden with food. Boxes of vitamins,

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Nov 07, 2013

Guided by Love’s pressure, His hand on my back

On this chill morning, though, standing there at my window, it’s the light that catches my eye. Shining warm, shining clear, the eastern light has touched the leaves that still

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Nov 05, 2013

All Hands on Deck

FacebookTwitterGoogle+DiggPinterestBloggerWith the boys back in school now, things at our house are finally settling into a routine for the baby and me. The first week was a little dicey. He

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