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In Step with the Spirit

Faith in the face of adversity
Hope in the midst of despair
Love in response to hostility Continue reading

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Stray Cats

Knowing that we sometimes scratch and claw and hiss at the very one trying to bless us, he reached down and lifted us to him anyway. Continue reading

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The Execution of Justice

He walked stone paths,
stooped and wrote in the dust of human flesh.
Friend of leper and harlot,
often caught in the wickedness of doing good
on the Sabbath.
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It Is Well

In the midst of life’s deepest griefs, in the moment of our greatest fears, in the time of trials and testings, in the unbounded joy of greatest blessing and in the rut-running routine of life in between all those, choices come to us. Continue reading

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Swapping Places

Even from the midst of our messes, God heals and blesses. Though he may not spare us from the consequences of our choices, he still supplies grace and mercy. Continue reading

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Patterns

Either we teach our children and ourselves that love is unconditional or we teach them that it is earned and subject to change without notice. Continue reading

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