My Thanksgiving List – The Best List I Ever Made
Many married years ago, I made an atypical Thanksgiving list – not about what to buy for the meal, but about my heart. It was the best list I ever made.
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These stories chronicle real-life encounters with God. In them you can see how He carefully unveils our hearts, clarifies our thinking, and brings new life with His words.
To Move Like the Fire
Your presence, Lord, surrounds & shields me far better than any wood stove shields its dancing fire. Increase my faith. Teach me to move like the fire.
Read moreHonor Your Mother
I never thought to honor my mother. I had my reasons. But now, 40 years after her death, I see God’s words, “Honor your mother” and I wonder how to do it.
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Meeting Mom in Heaven
I’ve rather hoped to avoid meeting mom in heaven. But eventually you’re bound to meet everybody. Including my mom. So what happens when we meet? What do we do with all the issues the two of us never addressed?
Read moreA Last Minute Entrance Into Paradise
Ninety-eight and a half, a week away from eternity, and no interest in Jesus. He didn’t know he was about to make a last minute entrance into paradise.
Read moreWhy Are There Still Colors in the World?
I don’t understand. Why are there still colors in the world? The sun still shines, but how? For last night my friend’s daughter died.
Read moreLooking Out My Back Door
I am, as I write, sitting on my screen porch, looking out my back door over the railing at scenery I’ve delighted in for years. But I’m not enjoying it now, not really, because tomorrow we move out. And I’m sad. So many happy memories, out here on the porch and inside this home. I’ll never again find myself looking out my back door – not this back door over this railing to these trees. Never again. I miss my view even before it’s gone.
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