The other morning in my personal Bible reading, I read about the man who lay on a bed of lies that was too short for him. The deception could not cover him. What an apt illustration. The passage was referring to the leaders in Israel. The Lord said he knew how to thresh the different […]
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Christmas can be a wonderful time for many people, a time of joy, excitement, laughter, and gift giving. Christmas can also be a difficult time for many people, a time of depression, loneliness, aching hearts, tears cried in quiet places. At Christmas time, when we are supposed to be happy, sometimes we remember more strongly
Everyone I know is waiting. They wait for a new house. A new baby. Healing from sickness. The end of one thing and the start of another. When I first composed this article, fifteen hostages waited in Haiti, yearning to be free. Simeon waited for years to see the Messiah, and when he saw him
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Yesterday, I rode with Ivan on the golf cart to check his hay fields, and the breeze was balmy and the grass bright green against the billowed sky and the curled pines at the edge of the field promised enchantment. Our child kicked in my uterus and Ivan told me that he loved me, and
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“They used to say that getting old isn’t fun,” my 84-year-old father-in-law tells me, every so often. “And boy, now I sure know what they mean.” I call my father-in-law “Grandpa,” as his children often do. He and “Grandma” got married in their sixties, both of them already grandparents, and “Grandpa and Grandma” slipped easily
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