A Time To Mourn Today my best friend mourns. “There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under the heavens: a time to be born and a time to die… a time to weep and a time to laugh, a time to mourn and a time to dance…” Ecclesiastes 3:1, 2 […]
Feeding The 8000 We’ve all read the story how Jesus took the gift of a child’s lunch, blessed it and fed the five-thousand even providing leftovers to share. Although the food silenced thousands of growling bellies, what Jesus really was after was to feed their souls. “…Man shall not live by bread alone, but by
Phantom Pregnancies and False Prophets When I was a young girl I remember listening to a sermon that was given by an old retired doctor. He related an incidence that happened in the mission field. A childless woman wanted children so badly that she actually believed herself into a pregnancy. The woman showed all the
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Is What’s Popular Always Right? I seldom travel, so when I do I find it stressful. Last week I was dropped off at Sea-tac International Airport. I momentarily stood on the curb, my suitcase in hand and took a deep breath. With a frantic prayer on my lips I walked through the automatic doors. My
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The Foreknowledge of God It is something special to be caught in the foreknowledge of God, when you look back and all you can say is, WOW! Less than two hours before crossing the Canadian border for a week long vacation, I received an email asking if I would like my 2020 calendar to be
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Your Hearts Desire When I was ten years old our neighbor taught me how to play Jesus Loves Me on the piano. The method was simple. A two finger chord with the left hand and a single finger melody played with the right. I built off of this quickly and instantly began praying for a
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He Will Wipe the Tears From Our Eyes “Thump”, “thump”. I instantly had a stomach ache. I knew the familiar sound. I got up from my painting to check to see if the distracted birds survived flying into our window. My heart lightened as I found no evidence of injury or even worse, death. I
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She Has Done What She Could The theme of my dreams are all too predictable. I’m always trying to get somewhere or do something with a deadline. Numerous situations slow me down or the film in my head slows down to a near standstill and I have the feeling that I’m stuck in slow motion
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Learning to Wait or Being Gifted Faith? I’m a spontaneous person. If I get an idea I’m on it instantly, there’s no messing around! As often as I get an idea (they are endless…) I run into situations where my enthusiasm has to throttle back for others to catch up and I end up having
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Jesus Had a Grandmother Too “Excuse me, how old is your baby?” She smiled at me and said “She’s nine months old ” Tears welled up inside me as her baby wriggled and gave me a huge smile. I explained to her that I hadn’t seen my grand-baby since she was one week old and
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