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My Foot Slipped
In April I took a misstep on a wooden strip of flooring in my house, and fell backward onto the hardwood floor. I was briefly stunned, but was quickly helped up after feeling fairly sure that I could stand and even walk. It happened in the evening, and so we waited until the next morning…
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Lift Up Your Hearts
Let us lift up our hearts and hands to God in Heaven. (Lamentations 3:41) Our hearts are located somewhat left of the center of our chests. They are the pumps that receive and deliver life giving blood to all the other parts of our bodies. For thousands of years the heart has been poetically associated…
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Grief
Once there were three men who had each had a close friend who had died. The friend was happy in heaven, but the three men were very sad. The first one said to himself, “I have become so sad that I have forgotten how to be happy again. I used to walk with my friend…
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The Language of Hope
One day Jesus was praying in a certain place. When he finished, one of his disciples said to him, “Lord, teach us to pray, just as John taught his disciples.” He said to them, “When you pray, say. . . (Luke 11:1) When the disciple asked Jesus to teach all of them to pray, that…
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Surprising Grace
In a world wrenched by wars, conflict, misery and discontent on virtually every continent, it’s easy to think that God has closed the book on His unending grace. I can think, though, of times of undeniable grace occurring in surprising places. When we were fostering a little girl in our home, I had to take…
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God’s Heart
Throughout the Bible God’s spokesperson’s appeal to the “hearts” of the people of Israel: Hear, O Israel, the Lord our God , the Lord is one. Love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul and with all our strength. ( Deuteronomy 6:5) Jesus said, The good seed on good…
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The Devil Defeated
In “The Devil in the Dark”, an early episode of the Star Trek series, with Captain Kirk and Mr. Spock, the two of them visit a planet where they encounter what appears to be a very large rock in an underground mine. The object, called a “Horta” is clearly alive, and is presumed by both…
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Marveling
The Centurion said, “Lord, I do not deserve to have you come under my roof. But just say the word, and my servant will be healed. For I myself am a man under authority, with soldiers under me. I tell this one to ‘go’, and he goes, and that one ,’come’ and he comes”. .…
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Such As These
My neighbor watched as I told my three year old daughter and her friend to look both ways before crossing the street in front of our house. “Be sure to look both up and down the street,” I said; and then we watched as she and her friend stared up at the sky, then down…
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Listen To The Love
When we first moved to Spring, Texas, our only daughter was two and a half years old. I hoped that there would be other children near by, so we were delighted to find that the neighbors on each side included little girls nearly her age. As they grew older the three of them became friends…
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