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Inexhaustible Grace
photo by Josh Scholten “It has always been a happy thought to me that the creek runs on all night, new every minute, whether I wish it or know it or care, as a closed book on a shelf continues to...
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Need a Hug
photo from iowacorn.org “I’m still discovering, right up to this moment, that it is only by living completely in this world that one learns to have faith. I mean living unreservedly in life’s duties,...
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Interrupted
\ “We must be ready to allow ourselves to be interrupted by God.” Dietrich Bonhoeffer So I’m sauntering through life, enjoying the view, appreciating each mundane moment, doing what I think I was meant...
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Advent Sings: Departing in Peace
And it had been revealed to him by the Holy Spirit that he would not see death before he had seen the Lord’s Christ. And he came in the Spirit into the temple, and when the parents brought in the...
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Christmas Sings: Joy Bursts Us Open
Altdorfer Nativity painted in 1513 Joy abides with God and it comes down from God and embraces spirit, soul, and body; and where this joy has seized a person, there it spreads, there it carries one...
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Transforming Anxiety
photo by Nate Gibson …difficulties are magnified out of all proportion simply by fear and anxiety. From the moment we wake until we fall asleep we must commend other people wholly and unreservedly to...
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Lenten Grace — Great Gaps
photo by Kathy Yates Where God tears great gaps we should not try to fill them with human words. They should remain open. Our only comfort is the God of the resurrection, the Father of our Lord Jesus...
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Lenten Grace — Plunge into Deep Waters
photo by Kathy Yates Discipleship is not limited to what you can understand – it must transcend all comprehension. Plunge into the deep waters beyond your own understanding, and I will help you to...
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Pangs Remembered
photo by Josh Scholten Gratitude changes the pangs of memory into a tranquil joy. ~Dietrich Bonhoeffer photo by Josh Scholten
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Hiding Nothing
You can hide nothing from God. The mask you wear before men will do you no good before Him. He wants to see you as you are, He wants to be gracious to you. You do not have to go on lying to yourself...
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Solidarity and Silence
We hear so much today of the word solidarity. It has become a part of our vocabulary in the past twenty or thirty years. Today our solidarity with brothers and sisters of our faith, and of other...
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Awaiting His Arrival: An Advent Series
It was a time like this, war & tumult of war, a horror in the air. Hungry yawned the abyss – and yet there came the star and the child most wonderfully there. It was a time like this of fear &...
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Awaiting His Arrival: From Being Turned Away to Answering the Knock
While they were there, the time came for the baby to be born, 7 and she gave birth to her firstborn, a son. She wrapped him in cloths and placed him in a manger, because there was no guest room...
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A Shudder of the Heart
Follow Breanna and Jim Randall on burmachronicle.com …you must not swerve from the engagements God offers you. These will occur in the most unlikely places, and with people for whom your first...
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The Storm Within
Beneath our clothes, our reputations, our pretensions, beneath our religion or lack of it, we are all vulnerable both to the storm without and to the storm within. ~Frederick Buechner – from Telling...
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God Among Us: Brothers of All Mankind
Since the children have flesh and blood, he too shared in their humanity … for this reason he had to be made like them, fully human in every way, in order that he might become a merciful and faithful...
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God Among Us: The Wonder of All Wonders
The whole earth is filled with awe at your wonders; where morning dawns, where evening fades, you call forth songs of joy. Psalm 65:8 It was a time like this, War & tumult of war, a...
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To Be Interruptible
We must be ready to allow ourselves to be interrupted by God. ― Dietrich Bonhoeffer I’ve worked hard in my professional life to be easily interruptible; my patients, colleagues and...
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Infinite Worth
Christianity preaches the infinite worth of that which is seemingly worthless and the infinite worthlessness of that which is seemingly so valued. ~Dietrich Bonhoeffer Why do...
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We Interrupt This Life
We must be ready to allow ourselves to be interrupted by God. God will be constantly crossing our paths and canceling our plans by sending us people with claims and petitions. We may pass them by,...
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