Category: The Library
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Assurance
There are places in our hearts, broad places of rest and fullness, that cannot exist unless we live through periods of darkness. In the darkness we can be assured that God will be our Comforter in His way and His time, and we can be sure that He is at work to make something beautiful…
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Asking God “Why?”
Yesterday was my CT scan. It’s a quick and relatively painless process, and I was pleasantly surprised to discover there was no prep for it this time (as opposed to my full-body scan last year when I had to drink a half gallon of some nasty milky substance to make my insides glow.) I say…
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And The Cuteness, Y’all, It Overwhelms
So, I’ve been MIA a bit lately, and every time I turn around I think, I need to write that down, because my children and my life keep me laughing (or crying). And since laughter is healing, here goes… My buddy has come home from school with something new every week (sometimes it’s every day),…
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Rest
“If you want rest come to Christ in Gethsemane, to Christ on Calvary, to Christ risen, to Christ ascended. If you want rest, O weary souls, ye can find it nowhere until ye come and lay your burdens down at His dear pierced feet, and find life in looking alone to Him.” – Charles Spurgeon…
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Bloodlines
Friday afternoon in the mountainous coal mining region of Pennsylvania, we buried my grandmother. She was ninety-four. It had been more than fifteen years since I had been to my father’s hometown, and I was awash with a multitude of memories and emotions. A very ethnic Italian and Polish community, it was like walking back…
A Spring of Joy 