Please excuse the “re-print” from an older devotion shared with you in 2008-it has a message for us today! Tucked away in a filing cabinet is an orange file folder. It’s many years old and smells of dust, so I try not hold it too close, nor fan it around…
Read moreThere’s a song by William McDowell entitled, Withholding Nothing. Some of the lyrics of the song are: “I surrender all to You. Everything I give to You. Withholding nothing….Withholding nothing…(repeated several times) I give You all of me….I give You all of me…. (repeated several times) King Jesus, my Savior…
Read moreWhen I was a little girl and would get ready for school or church, the most difficult thing was often brushing my hair…or having my mother brush it. It tangled easily. Sleeping, tossing, turning-tangling my hair until the comb snagged and hung up-and it took time and patience to get…
Read moreIt was summer 2013. There was a good group of us on the Honduran village trail that day. Hot temperature, cooled only by the frequent showers from the constant clouds that hovered in the skies. We had traveled to many houses that day, Marie, our voice to the neighbors had…
Read moreHide thy face from my sins, and blot out all mine iniquities. Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right spirit within me. Cast me not away from thy presence; and take not thy holy spirit from me. Restore unto me the joy of thy salvation;…
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