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Listening to the morning news can be discouraging, but I believe a multitude of people is quietly going about their business, unnoticed in the world, doing good things. I hope you’ll consider your daily walk, and discover small ways to bless those around you. I’m...
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On Saturday, my family and I walked in the Garden Spot 5k walk/run race. My hometown’s Chamber of Commerce organized the first race in 1982, and it’s evolved into a fun community tradition. This year, I challenged myself not to compete, to enjoy the company and the...
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You will seek me and find me, when you seek me with all your heart. Jeremiah 29:13. It’s four-thirty in the evening and darkness is closing in around me. Staring at the Christmas tree shining from the window makes me miss the ones who loved me best, my parents. I’ve...
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Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever. Hebrews 13:8 NIV It’s become a tradition for me to start the holiday season by attending a Thanksgiving service at Shady Grove, a small country church just a few miles down the road from my home. It was...
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Ephesians 1:18 NIV: I pray that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened in order that you may know the hope to which he has called you, the riches of his glorious inheritance in his holy people, Last week I attended the American Christian Fiction Writers’ (ACFW)...
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The third time he said to him, “Simon son of John, Do you love me?” Peter was hurt because he asked him the third time, “Do you love me?” He said, “Lord, you know all things; you know that I love you.” Jesus said, “Feed my sheep.” John 21:17 NIV While passing through...
