In the weeks after Hurricane Michael, I made a comment in one of my entries about bending and breaking. Today I came across a journal entry where I expanded on that thought. Oaks, pines and other hardwoods (even those with great root systems) blew over from the hours of strong…
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God has been directing my conversations with other believers recently to the subject of grace, the vital element of our faith this website emphasizes in its title. Only with sensitivity the Holy Spirit gives us can we see how grace envelops so many aspects of our lives. God’s grace protects…
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Today is Boxing Day, once a day for rewards for faithful servants, now for shopping and visiting friends. In America, it is often a day for bargain hunting and cleaning up from Christmas celebrations. The gifts are opened, the feasts’ remnants less appetizing and the children and adults cranky from…
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“The people that walked in darkness have seen a great light: they that dwelt in the land of the shadow of death, upon them hath the light shined. Thou hast multiplied the nation, thou hast increased their joy; they joy before thee according to the joy in harvest, as men…
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The force of the wind was so loud and compelling to watch from our windows that we could think of nothing else until it stopped. We stood for four hours in the dim daylight and watched as the landscape outside changed forever. When it stopped, we emerged from the house…
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