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Keeping Oneself Deserving of God's Bestowed Favor

So it's happened again that my boss has called me to say I'm being given yet another high-profile account. "Very important," she said of this one. But what was really the compliment were the reasons behind my being ass…
That "Secret" to Contentment

I have learned the secret of being content in any and every situation, whether well fed or hungry, whether living in plenty or in want. Philippians 4:12, NIVI sometimes think that if the Apostle Paul was in my Small Gro…
Coming to Jesus "not" like a child.

I was near the front of the rush into the restrooms tonight at church, and just behind me was a girl about four years old. The only stall left open when I reached the ladies- was the handicapped, and as the little girl …
Feeling a bit like Job

In saying that I can empathize with Job, I don't dare say I'm as holy as Scripture says he was, but I do feel that my life has raised a few challenges to the Enemy. I keep writing and saying and declaring all these thin…
This too shall pass...*

Keeghan died last night. I look around me at happy people and I wonder how can they be so carefree when my world has just stopped. Indeed, I wonder how I can be so carefree when I don't think of what happened. I've ke…
The sheer ease of God's plan

Friday afternoon I went with my father to pick up my Jeep from the body shop. As I was driving it home, I could only marvel at how perfect and easy the whole situation has been for me. For one thing, Grandpa didn't pin…
The White Elephant

See the grimace? My face will always betray my thoughts, and this perfectly timed photograph speaks volumes about my opinion of the ring I was given at Christmas. Of course, this is not the reaction my parents were l…
An early "Happy Father's Day."

In response to my Thursday post, Xangan RiverbendPaul copied me on one he had written and has since reposted. As I read about how he spoke of what sort of children we must make to Father God, my mind went off in its own…
The art of receiving.*

'Tis the Season...when someone you didn't buy a gift for gives you one, and your first thought is, "Oh no! I didn't get them a thing!" It's obvious when someone gives you an unexpected gift. There is this awkward mome…
Socks...*

"Oh. Socks," you blandly say. "Thanks. I needed these." And you smile with your lips and immediately set the gift aside because you didn't think you did.Christmas morning, and you've just opened the eyebrow-raising, …

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