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Grace for the New Year
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Sometimes we can't see past the hard moments, but we when we review the past, we see that grace was there after all, helping us make our way... Read More + |
Culture Corner: Top 10 Reasons to Hope
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What we watch says a lot about what matters to us. Show me your Top Ten, and I bet I can make a few accurate assumptions about what you value and what tugs your heart. Read More + |
Vocation of staying put
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Lore grabbed my attention in a recent lament about vocation. Her message is universal as all of us have dreamed of being in better jobs at better locations under better circumstances. Read More + |
The Tutor
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Sherry was a tutor, hired to review grammar with 10-year-old Bobby in the hospital burn unit. The unit shocked her, and the boy was hard to look at. But she stayed, taught verbs and adverbs, and the next day, she forced herself to return.... Read More + |
God's Grammar for the New Year
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Somebody—probably a preacher—has said, "Don't put a period where God only puts a comma." Good spiritual syntax. When negativity insinuates itself into the narrative of our lives, we tend to end the story too soon. Writer's block sets in. Creativity runs out. The river dries up.... Read More + |
Life Doesn't Card You at the Door
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When Thomas Jefferson drafted the Declaration of Independence, he was only 33 years old. When Benjamin Franklin wrote Poor Richard's Almanac, he was 26. At age 18, Mary Shelley began writing Frankenstein. Isaac Newton was 25 when he formulated the law of gravity. But wait. Emanuel Kant wrote his great philosophical work at age 74.... Read More + |
Open Your Eyes and Listen
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Listening is difficult because most of us are too busy speaking. God, on the other hand, listens generously to us, and He listens as we rattle on and on.... Read More + |
Taking the Call
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Kara went to El Salvador on a mission trip and fell in love: with the entire village of El Sunza, not just one boy. Kara was only fifteen years old, but she needed to give more to these people. David was fifty years old. His job at an advertising firm paid the bills, but he had a passion for fine art.... Read More + |
Start Walking: Your Life Will Find You
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I stood beside the opened trunk of my car and began to remove my jewelry, as instructed. Rings, earrings, watch, bracelets dropped into my purse. This is crazy, I thought. Stripped of these small marks of my individuality, I felt strangely vulnerable and exposed.... Read More + |
Hope Defined
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Just the way we use the word hope makes it difficult to define.... Read More + |
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Hopeful Grief: Personal Examples
I realize that the notion of hopeful grief might still seem odd to you.... Read More +











