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Every Soul on the Sidewalk
As you can imagine, there aren’t many places to go in our little country community for trick-or-treating fun, so we loaded up the kids and spent the evening with friends at their home downtown. We gathered for a warm meal and joyful conversation, then readied the kids as dusk appeared. There they were, 6 boys…
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“How Emptiness Sings”
On Saturday morning I went to a baby shower. She is expecting her third–a girl after two boys (sound familiar?). On Sunday afternoon Bri and I went to the wedding of one of my Bible study girls. It was a gorgeous day at a breathtaking setting by a river with an even more breathtaking bride…
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Finding Mercy in Job
God could have left Job alone. He could have said, “Have your bickering wife. Have your ten wayward children. Have your safe little world. Have your little bubble.” But the Lord said, “Job, I love you too much to leave you to yourself. I love you too much to leave you to the smallness of…
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Beautiful Reminders
I’ve written about them before… these patches of Godlight as C.S. Lewis calls them. Those moments when in the woods of our experience, we see God’s hand. These days, it seems the woods of my experience look a bit like this: It’s easy to get bogged down in the brambles and thorns and briars and…
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When My Voice Has No Song
As the deer pants for streams of water, so my soul pants for you, O God. My soul thirsts for God, for the living God. When can I go and meet with God? My tears have been my food day and night, while men say to me all day long, “Where is your God?” These…
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A Spring of Joy 