A miracle. A vision. My first year.
I grew up in a family of hermits. We lived at the end of a dead end dirt road. And, as I grew up, I was told not to trust […]
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MCS (multiple chemical sensitivities)
I have been dealing with MCS for a long time. Perfumes, car fumes, any number of chemicals can cause migraines and/or asthmatic reactions. A lot of ‘unscented” products aren’t. When
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Genealogy. Sometimes it hurts
I started out looking at genealogy to try to understand my family. And I have found some answers that helped with my hurt. I didn’t expect to find other family lines
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A 2020 response
I grew up in a little town on Cape Ann in Massachusetts. There were no blacks in that town—at least I never saw one. There were none in the school
Sufferings
The Spirit himself bears witness with our spirit that we are children of God, and if children, then heirs—heirs of God and fellow heirs with Christ, provided we suffer with
Counted as righteous
No unbelief made [Abraham] waver concerning the promise of God, but he grew strong in his faith as he gave glory to God, fully convinced that God was able to
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What comes next?
You’ve heard the Good News of Jesus. You’ve believed and “given your life to Christ.” Is that it? Are we done here? I do not cease to give thanks for
My story
(From the Women’s Retreat, April 2014) Up front is really not my gift. They asked me to tell my story and how I cope. We all suffer something. It may
Jesus—the man’s touch
He lived with the stigma of illegitimacy. Isn’t this the carpenter? Isn’t this Mary’s son and the brother of James, Joseph, Judas and Simon? Aren’t his sisters here with us?”
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Jesus—the man
As I look at Luke and read Mary’s story. And look at Matthew and read Joseph’s side of the story. Some interesting things strike me. Both Mary and Joseph believed