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God Provides
God Provides One night I had a dream of my father, who had passed away about three years earlier. In the dream my father walked toward me and said, “Your mother is doing everything right for Stephanie (my daughter), but I want her to have some of my duds.” He reached out his hand holding…
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The Secret Place
The Secret Place When you pray, go into your secret place and shut the door and pray to your Father who is in secret, and your Father who is in secret will reward you. (Matthew 6:6). These words words were spoken by Jesus just before he gave the disciples the words to the Lord’s Prayer.…
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Treasure And Heart
Jesse was a first grader eager to learn when he came to stay with us as a foster child. I enrolled him in the nearby public school and he struggled at first to keep up with the class. At home he begged me to go over spelling and vocabulary lists. I drove him to and…
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Hear For Yourself
The wives of Isaac, Jacob, and Moses were each found at a well. Centuries later, Jesus found a Samaritan woman at a well and revealed to her his real identity. She said, “I know that Messiah (called Christ) is coming.. . . Then Jesus declared, “I, the one speaking to you,–I am he.” (John 4:25&…
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The Good Shepherd
A friend of mine told me of an artist friend of hers who was working on a portrait of Jesus as the Good Shepherd. The artist had been to Israel to get an accurate view of the sort of sheep that are there, and had returned to finish the picture in the U.S. It was…
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Love
So Jacob served seven years to have Rachel, but they seemed like only a few days to him because of his love for her. (Genesis 29:20) The love of Jacob for Rachel is the seed of the creation of the tribes of Israel. His love enabled him to endure seven years of labor, the imposition…
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Consider The Lilies
One of the sweetest things about the approach of autumn is the changing light. Shadows become longer and the light shining on roofs and sidewalks is milder and gentler. You can sometimes see a haze over the fields when you look for hay bales. With the change of light comes the sense that my familiar…
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Wedded Life
Four daughters and a son is a fairly large family, and I am the middle of the five. When we were growing up, my father was heard to say from time to time, “Your mother is the most beautiful woman in the world.” When I was four years old I knew without a question that…
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Room For God
Recently when Jack and I were buying smoothies to take to our daughter’s house when our granddaughter wasn’t feeling well, we waited for our order. When another customer carried her own large order toward the door, Jack moved quickly across the room in order to open the door for her. A woman waiting next to…
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The First Gift
On the last day of the festival, Jesus stood and said in a laud voice, “Let anyone who is thirsty come to me and drink. Whoever believes in me, as Scripture has said, rivers of living water will flow from within them.” By this he meant the Spirit, whom those who believed in him were…
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