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Looking For Love
The Lord was pleased that Solomon had asked for this (wisdom). So God said to him, “Since you have asked for this and not for long life or wealth for yourself. . . but for discernment in administering justice, I will do what you have asked.” (1 Kings 3:10-12) One of the most stunning events…
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Laughter
Walking down the isle of a small grocery store, I pulled my cart to the side as I heard another one close behind me. When I looked around I saw a mother with three children, two riding in or on her cart, one walking beside her. What struck me about their appearance was that all…
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Learning
Two of my young nephews asked me if there was anything they could do to win their English teacher’s favor on a writing assignment. I answered, “If you can use a semicolon properly, she would probably be impressed, especially if she hasn’t taught it to you yet.” Both boys were eager to try, and so…
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Love And Spaghetti
Maria, a Mexican woman who worked at the church I was attending, and I were chatting when she mentioned that she might be absent for a few days, as she was thinking about returning home with her sister to visit their mother. “My sister always likes to go home for some of my mother’s tortillas,”…
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The Telegram
In Rudyard Kipling’s novel Captains Courageous, Harvey Cheyne Sr. sat alone in his office contemplating retirement as one of the richest rail-road barons in America, when he received a telegram. Five months earlier Cheyne’s only son, fifteen year old Harvey Jr, had been swept off the deck of a luxury ocean liner in a storm,…
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Inner Vision
Fanny Crosby, the author of the famous hymn “Blessed Assurance”, along with more than 8,000 other hymns, was blind almost from birth. She wrote about her blindness and said that, given the chance to have her sight restored by a simple and even convenient operation, She would choose not to have it: “Because when I…
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Holy Marvels
Jesus “marveled” only twice in the New Testament; once in Nazareth when neighbors he knew and loved did not recognize God in him. (Mark 6:6), and once in Capernaum when a Roman centurion did. (Matthew 8:10) “The centurion replied , ‘ Lord, I do not deserve to have you come under my roof. But just…
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Onyx
“Onyx” is the name of a black tea cup poodle puppy who lives next door to us. When he arrived, he was small enough to sit on the palm of my hand. I asked his owner, Susan, if he would get much bigger, and she answered, “They told me that he will grow a little…
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Trust
Trust It was late fall, and getting cooler almost every day. I was helping my violin teacher give violin lessons to a class of fifth graders when one ten year old girl was wearing gloves as she opened her case, removed her violin, looked at me and said, “I’ll be wearing gloves while I play…
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The Swim
Three year old Rosie, my granddaughter, was taking swimming lessons at a community pool, and refusing to get into the water. Her instructor, a young man who was also a life guard, called her “Little One” as he tried to convince her to at least try to get used to the water. When I heard…
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