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The Beginning of Wisdom
The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom. (Proverbs 9:10) Before the fisherman Simon ever became the disciple Peter, he addressed Jesus as “Master”, and reluctantly agreed to cast his net in the place that Jesus suggested, until the miraculous catch produced enough fish for Jesus to reel in three new disciples: Peter,…
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Seed Time and Harvest
January is the month in which seed and plant catalogs arrive in my mailbox. That’s all it takes to make me start planning our back yard spaces for flowers and shrubs, and pots. Some of the plans have borne fruit (literally and figuratively) , but many more I abandoned after very little effort. This year…
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Twin Fawns
Washing his hands at the kitchen sink, one of my nephews looked out the window and was startled to see a doe leap up and over his fence into the neighboring woods. When Frank looked back at the yard he was even more startled to see twin new-born fawns lying in the grass. He was…
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No Chores
A child’s paradise in the summer is a visit to her grandfather’s small dairy farm in central New York. It was my privilege to experience this for a few summers with my four siblings. I called it Paradise, because we had the run of the house, barn, fields and hill without a single chore to…
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Joseph
One of the most Christ-like passages in the Old Testament comes to us from the mouth of Joseph, the son of Jacob, when his brothers came to him after the death of their father, and begged Joseph to forgive them for the way they had treated him years earlier. He had eventually been sold as…
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Lions
When I was very young, I dreaded opening the bathroom door by myself. I thought that it was possible, even perhaps likely that a lion would pounce upon me at the opening of the door. This notion stayed with me for a few years before I finally questioned myself and realized that the antique lion…
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God’s Country
When I was getting ready to move from a small town in central New York state to Spring, Texas, I was pleased and happy, but also scared and apprehensive. As the day of moving arrived, I became more unsure of what lay ahead. When the huge moving truck arrived, the driver came to the door…
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The Week Between
The week between Christmas and New Years day was always a magic one, probably because the decorations were still in place and the time was drained of its pre Christmas frenzy. For children, that week was a vacation from school, and in the North it usually meant snow and new sleds. In the South there…
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Blessed Merry Christmas
The prophet Micah prophesied in the late 8th century BC. He brought messages of defeat and destruction to both Jerusalem and to Samaria, the northern capital of Israel. His pronouncements were vivid, strong, and, scary. He held back nothing in describing the disasters ahead for these two cities. Micah was the first prophet to predict…
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Bring A Gift
A friend on mine who was having regular chemo treatments for breast cancer told me that sitting in the treatment waiting room enabled her to meet many other patients, some of whom engaged in what they called “bargaining “ with God for their lives, their mobility , time, and other desires. One day she prayed,…
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