George had warned me about the shirt, so I wore a blue polo. Match my eyes, not that that mattered here, simple, collegiate and in deference to my mother, clean. “The Pastor’s a real stickler
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“For who has despised the day of small things?” Zechariah 4:10 My precious grandgirls: Hannah’s smile. Emma’s voice on the phone. Ken bringing me coffee while I’m still trying to will myself out of bed.
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Note from Tina: Today I’m thinking of a friend who is about to spend her first Christmas without her mother. I wish I could take away her pain, but of course I don’t know how,
Read moreA Suggestion for Your Christmas Bonus
Here is a cause I’ve always wanted to feature at Christmas time—because gives someone a cool present alongside the donation that was made in the recipient’s honor. Did you know that $30 can give someone
Read moreThe Last Chapter
Here is what I know for sure. The difficulty that God allows into our lives is not the end of the story. Disease is temporary. Pain is impermanent. Disappointment is fleeting. That Psalm 23 speaks
Read moreHurry Less, Worry Less This Christmas
By Judy Christie. When I was a girl, I was shopping at a Woolworth’s store that came complete with a costume-jewelry counter and a ring-sizer that looked like an old-fashioned telephone dial. Curious, I put
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I had forgotten that children really believe in Santa. A seed was planted within me that day.
Read moreThe Necessity of Brokenness
by Rita A. Schulte It’s a rainy day today, the kind of day that surrounds one in melancholy. Something stirs in my memory as I reach down to set my warm cup of tea beneath
Read moreThe Greatest Soldier of All
BY Patti Smith Hall In honor of the 70th anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor, I’m posting the following story that was first published in God Allows U-Turns, American Moments almost ten years ago.
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I recall a story I once heard about a family who’s son was in Pearl Harbor on December 7th, 1941. Beginning that year, and every year since, it has been the family tradition to put
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