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Mary
One year on the night before Christmas eve, my mother-in-law fell and broke her leg. She was alone in her apartment until a friend wondered why she hadn’t come to breakfast in the morning and tried unsuccessfully to visit her. The friend called the fire department, whose men quickly arrived and broke her lock and…
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More Important
Astronaut James Irwin was the eighth man to walk on the moon in 1971. He was famous for this and for his remark, “Jesus walking on the earth was more important than man walking on the moon.” He was one of very few who could have made such an assertion with authenticity. I believe that…
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Reading Aloud
Abraham Lincoln always read aloud to himself, and sometimes I read aloud to myself. In the Bible a very important moment is facilitated by a man reading aloud to himself while sitting in a chariot. The incident was both natural and supernatural: Now an angel of the Lord said to Philip, “Go south. . .…
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The Heart of God
The Heart of God God spoke to Abraham. He spoke to Jacob, to Moses, among others, and to a young boy named Samuel, who had to be introduced before he could know that it was God who was calling him: Then Eli perceived that the Lord was calling the boy. So Eli told Samuel, “Go…
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Susa Was Perplexed
The story of Esther in the Bible is a story of perplexities unscrambled as an unexpected savior emerged. Nothing about the orphan girl Esther suggested that she would save her people from annihilation in a pagan country to which they had been exiled. While it’s true that she was exceptionally pretty, there were many beautiful…
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Greater Than Jonah
The men of Nineveh will stand up at the judgment with this generation and condemn it, for they repented at the preaching of Jonah; and now something greater than Jonah is here. Luke 11:32) More than once in the Bible Jesus calls upon the story of Jonah to explain his own relationship to God’s people.…
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Get Real
Nancy, my older sister, had bright red hair. She taught second grade for several years and loved being in the classroom. One October day her principal brought a red headed boy to her class and handed Nancy his folder. He had been transferred from another class in the same school. In fact, he had been…
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Open Wide Your Hearts
We have spoken freely to you, Corinthians, and opened wide our hearts to you. We are not withholding our affection from you, but you are withholding yours from us. As a fair exchange—I speak as to my children—open wide your hearts also. (2 Corinthians 6:11-13) These are the words of St. Paul , who founded…
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Cardinals
The cardinals that built a nest in the shrub outside my front door have flown away. I was fascinated with them for the duration of their stay. They persevered when we had the shrubs pruned and even after I discovered the nest and wanted to visit it every hour, but limited myself to twice a…
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The Prodigal
The Prodigal For five months the millionaire Harvey Cheyne Sr. and his wife Constance believed that their only son, Harvey Jr., who had been swept off the deck of a trans Atlantic ship on a trip to Europe, had perished in the ocean. They were still immersed in grief when the telegram in Harvey’s office…
