His Care, A Child’s Response

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I was a young Christian just beginning to serve the church.  I had just finished teaching my preschool Sunday School class when I saw the commotion.  I went back inside my room because I knew who this child was and what was going on. I knew that she experienced seizures frequently and that her mother was used to handling them.

My co-teacher, Jenny, had already raced to her aid.  Jenny was one of those friends who always seemed more capable than myself.  I was often amazed but also a bit fearful around her as she was highly…

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A Declaration of Dependence

jesus feet I love my country and the people who serve and have served me…us…with their lives.  I join today with others with thanks to God for our freedoms and our nation.  We are blessed. But I can’t help to think each Fourth of July about how I feel a bit strange declaring our independence.   Is it because I think perhaps that is what is wrong with us?  More and more of us in this country and the culture of our country are declaring our independence from God.  It characterizes…

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Waiting It Out In A Rain of Grace

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She jumps into the car beaming to be going to her friend’s house for the first time in a month.  Red dress and purple leggings bursting with cuteness.  I…looking forward to much needed one on one time on the riverfront with the boy.  Reading books and waiting for trains.  A promise he had looked forward to all day.

We plan.  We hurry.  We get there. I turn the handle of the door.  She looks down. A tear. Pout.  A lament. A whine.

I steam underneath.

Plans shattered. Boy shattered. Friend shattered.

I want to…

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Wishing You a Year of Witnessing God’s Work of Renewal and Restoration

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Why do we think in years in terms of starting fresh?

Why do we wait…sometimes…to start anew?

I ask this question without having an answer.  I’m just finding that I’d prefer to live in a way that thinks of each new day as a fresh start…as fresh as a new year.

Lamentations 3:22-23 “The steadfast love of the Lord never ceases; his mercies never come to an end; they are new every morning; great is your faithfulness.”

But as humans we mark time don’t we?

We are nourished when we to look back on a segment of…

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