Category: The Bookshelf
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Give Us, O Lord…
…thankful hearts which never forget Your goodness to us. Give us, O Lord, grateful hearts, which do not waste time complaining. ~Thomas Aquinas Grape jelly smile smeared across chubby cheeks. Time. Breathing life together. The sound of Brian’s voice reading to our children. Bathtub rings. Remnants of fun-filled days. Growth. Tossing the wigs to wear…
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My Master’s Work
In Luke’s account of Jesus’ healing the paralytic, he sums it up with this verse. Then everyone was astounded and they were giving glory to God. And they were filled with awe and said, “We have seen incredible things today!” (Luke 5:26) As I sit here from our 16th floor condo and gaze at the…
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Prayers Of The Saints
Recently, I was asked to share in our Sunday School class about how the prayers of the saints ministered to me during my recent journey through cancer. Since many of you played a huge role in praying for me, I thought I’d take this opportunity to show you what an impact you had in my…
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I Wish…
I sat beside her for 35 minutes. Violet was her name. She was in her eighties and was leaving her nursing home in 3 days, and she couldn’t stop talking about how ready she was to drive a car again. We had come, our small group of college students, to sing in a local nursing…
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Day’s Beginnings
I read this on Ann’s blog this week, and it was so rich and so convicting. “Eternal Father of my soul, let my first thought today be of You, let my first impulse be to worship You, let my first speech be Your name, let my first action be to kneel before You in prayer….…
A Spring of Joy 