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Feb 8, 2008

A Generous God

God, Peace 0

God is so amazingly generous.  I ask, he gives.  Just like that.  I worry; he counsels me in the night.  He molds my very heart in his hands and instructs…

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Feb 8, 2008

Letting the Master Sleep

Trust 0

“Where is your faith?” he asked them, and suddenly I realized that shrieking to Jesus to help me and having faith that he would take care of me were not…

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Feb 7, 2008February 7, 2008

God Is Not Mean.

God, Gratitude, Joy, Life 0

Today, though, I choose to worship a God whose justice is beyond my understanding in all particulars but this one that my children have taught me:  God is not mean.…

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Feb 7, 2008

Opportunities for God to Love Me

God, Life 0

And so, I believe I’m wrong to expect disasters, which isn’t to say they won’t happen.  But if they do, they won’t be payback, but rather — I try to…

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Feb 6, 2008

A Perfect Parent

God 0

Most of all, though, I need what I never realized I had all along:  a perfect Parent in addition to my fallible earthly ones.  A Father who honors me and…

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Jan 30, 2008

Grieving

Compassion, Healing, Life, Trials 0

It seems to me that I and most of the people I know have forgotten how to grieve like this — not only for others but for ourselves.  We have…

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Jan 12, 2008January 14, 2008

The Power of Literature

Books, Reading 0

Through reading literature, you see, I coexperience others’ struggles and occasional joys.  Great literature grows me. — Patty Kirk, Confessions of an Amateur Believer, p. 75

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Jan 12, 2008

Literature and Life

Life, Trials 0

There is no story without conflict, I tell would-be story writers.  Universal truth is ratified, in literature as in life, not through a character’s mere mindless affirmations of it but…

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Dec 31, 2007

The Treasures of Darkness

God, Trials 0

Being in God’s presence is all about following after him through destruction and turmoil and discovering his treasures in the secrecy and darkness of our struggling hearts. — Patty Kirk,…

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Dec 31, 2007

He is Present

God, Trials 0

And yet, paradoxically, during those years of struggle, not believing in him, not seeing him, having no faith at all, I nevertheless felt him there.  He was present in my…

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