You are not alone in all these mysteries … When all is lost. Have you ever had one of those days when you felt the life drain out of you and you were totally done?
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“Your perception of me is often a reflection of you” (anonymous) Our perception of others is unalterably tied to our own past experiences and sometimes, our own biases. I recently learned this lesson in a
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Your Song His Words David wrote, “I would have fainted, unless I had believed to see the goodness of the LORD in the land of the living.” (Psalm 27:13) His song, God’s words. Now you
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“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life” (John 3:16 ESV). This powerful proclamation speaks of our Father’s love,
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For two years, I knew my job was going away at Dillard Paper Company. International Paper had purchased us and was eliminating delivery routes to small and medium-sized printers. Selling paper and writing was all
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Living in the middle of North Carolina, I regularly deal with clay in the part of my garden that wasn’t seeded with rocks by the builder. Even planting daffodils is a challenge, but I persist
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The world shifted beneath my feet. I wanted to run as far and as fast as I could, to be anywhere else. I wanted to unhear the words, discover it was a sick joke, awake
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What a roadside weed, the apostle Paul, a traffic cone, and a terrible, horrible, no good day taught me about blooming where God plants us Yesterday began as an Australia day. That’s what we call
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My youngest son’s black lab, Bodie, eats everything. I want to be precise here, because “everything” is a word people use loosely. They say their dog eats everything and they mean he chewed a shoe
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There are seasons in life when we begin to realize that the roles we’ve carried for years are shifting. Sometimes it happens gradually. Sometimes it’s all at once. Career changes. Children become more independent. Ministries
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