faith
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Today was one of those rare, holy little gifts… a day off with no hurry attached to it. No alarm hollering at me like it had been personally offended. No shoes needing to be found in a panic. No coffee being gulped down like medicine. Just me, the morning, and the kind of quiet that…
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Rambling on about reflecting on the day and life in general… Driving home from work tonight, I saw the kind of sky that’ll make a person pull over, hush up, and forget whatever foolishness they were fussing about five minutes earlier. The clouds were all lit up by the sunset, stretched across the heavens like…
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I sat with the phrase “the hard years” this morning longer than I expected. At first, I thought surely I could point to one clean chapter, one obvious stretch of time, one neatly labeled season where life looked me square in the face and said, “Well, bless your heart, let’s see what you’re made of.”…
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Rambling on about Maintaining My Jesus in a World Full of Judases… Life, as I am learning as I grow older, is never what it seems or what I expected. While Mama warned me of many things, I did not see the life I have now coming. My faith is strong, and I thank God…
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Today’s prompt sent me on a trip down memory lane. It made me think deeply about the books I have read, the films I have watched, the recordings I have heard, and the newspaper stories that have stayed with me long after I first encountered them. It made me ask myself: what changed me? What…
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I am an old Boomer baby now, with 70 creeping up on me, and I have lived long enough to see both the best of times and the worst of times. Looking back, I can honestly say I am grateful and thankful for them all. Every season taught me something. Every hardship carved out a…
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This morning, as I read today’s prompt about the secret to being successful in life, Faith Hill’s song The Secret of Life came to mind. That song has a way of pointing us back to the simple things, the everyday moments that often hold more meaning than we realize. I believe success is measured differently…
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This year has grown me in ways I did not fully expect. Not all at once, and not always easily, but little by little, God has been opening my eyes. I have learned to see reality more clearly, to understand that my place in this world is truly mine, and to trust that God has…
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Fear is just part of being human, even though a lot of us don’t like to admit it. We worry about failing. We worry about rejection. We worry about being judged, feeling lonely, facing the unknown, and wondering what will happen if one day we can’t fully take care of ourselves financially or physically. Those…
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Finding God in the quiet, the ordinary, and the beautifully unnoticed… There is a kind of joy that does not clamor for attention. It does not arrive loudly or demand to be seen. It comes softly, like first light easing through the trees, like the hush of dawn before the world fully stirs, like the…
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