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I was on my way home from my church one day this week and the sky was filled with gray clouds. It has rained A LOT in my area for the last two months. This is not usual for our part of the south, yet it was about to be another rainy day. The sky […]
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My daughter once caught a glimpse of some scars on my stomach from a surgery I had recently gone through. She expressed her surprise that they were still so visible since it had been a few months. She told me that she thought they would have been gone by then. I explained to her that,
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I enjoy listening to Dr. David Jeremiah preach and I usually find myself listening to him multiple times each week. He recently shared an illustration about a man which caused me to do a little more research on him. The man’s name was Pablo Casals, and he is considered by some to be the greatest
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Walking Through Storms I recently saw a picture on social media of a snow-covered bison. The caption talked about how bison are one of the few animals that walk into a snowstorm. The one who shared the photo said that this was likely because they knew that doing so would get them through it more
Coram Deo Challenge Once while I was preparing a Sunday school lesson, I came across a phrase that to my knowledge, I had never heard before. It was the Latin phrase Coram Deo which means “before the face of God”. This phrase was taken from Psalm 56:13 and is a reminder that we are walking
Doing It Afraid Like many people, I am absolutely terrified of public speaking. If you ask me to get up in front of a crowd, my heart nearly races out of my chest, and it feels as if everything in me is shaking. I have never liked to speak in front of people. When I
This morning, I reached a huge milestone when I wrote down my 20,000th gift in my gratitude journal. I was so excited, I even shared about it on my social media. It was a great moment, but my excitement took a hit shortly afterwards. I went from rejoicing to grieving in a very short period
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Waiting Well If you have taken any classes with me or have known me for very long at all, you will know that I love words. You will know that I love to look up the meaning of words so that I can better understand them. One of the words I recently spent a little
His Grace Is Sufficient For several weeks now, there has been a Bible verse that God has continually brought to my attention. If not the entire verse, then at least the main theme of it has caught my attention at some point nearly every day for weeks. That verse is 2 Corinthians 12:9. “And He
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