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In Dealing with Grief Part 10, we learned that sometimes, when we are helping others deal with grief, our place is just to be there and to listen. Our encouraging silence will speak volumes more than our words ever could. Today's devotional, another personal story of...
Throughout the books of Moses, the people of Israel are promised repeatedly that they will be given the Promised Land, the Land of Canaan: "But the Lord your God will deliver them over to you … No one will be able to stand up against you; you will destroy them." (Deut...
My dear friend and neighbor gave me some new books recently. As I looked through them I decided to follow the advice of one of my favorite authors, Leo Buscaglia. Taking Leo’s lead then I ignored the covers, skipped the introductions, and dived right into the middle...
"And the second is like it: 'Love your neighbor as yourself.'" (Matt 22:39 NIV) My neighbor that lives just down the hill from me has "adopted" the family that lives across the road from her. She joyously calls their children her grandchildren and the mother and...
Have you ever been accused of being overcautious? Some of you have, I'm sure, but others of you, likely, are more of the "daredevil" type. You throw caution to the wind and continue on just for the thrill of trying something "dangerous". I'd like to say that in this...
"Jesus declared, 'I tell you the truth, no one can see the kingdom of God unless he is born again'”(John 3:3). God looks not for religious people but renewed men. When Jesus was on earth the Jewish religion was in great power. They had their own judiciary with the...
"We do not have a high priest who is unable to sympathize with our weaknesses, but...we have one (Jesus, the Son of God) who has been tempted in every way, just as we are." (Hebrews 4:15) This afternoon I was waving my arm back and forth underwater, hoping the...
As my husband says, ants always seem to find me and, I have a fascination with them. They are pretty interesting insects. I’ve written about them a couple of other times and how I can never seem to be rid of them. This morning they were in the sink. I could not tell...
"The Egyptians will know that I am the Lord when I gain glory through Pharaoh, his chariots and his horsemen." (Exodus 14:18 NIV) "Among the gods there is none like You O Lord; no deeds can compare with Yours. All the nations You have made will come and worship before...
"A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in pitchers of silver." (Proverbs 5:11) We all have experienced, either personally or observing it in others, how just a word at the right time and place, can change the entire atmosphere of a conversation, or change the...
My servant of righteousness who believed in me is my friend. Friends of the world you are my enemies. Abraham pleaded with me, I, the LORD, for mercy of Sodom and Gomorrah if just but 10 people be righteous would I, the LORD, save such a wicked place. YES! Plead for...
"The Lord watches over you— the Lord is your shade at your right hand Psalm 121:5 How precious is Your lovingkindness, O God! And the children of men take refuge in the shadow of Your wings." (Psalm 36:7) Sometimes our summers (and falls!) Are cookers. I have...
"Judge not, that you be not judged." (Matt 7:1-2 NKJV) When I was a boy my family and I lived in my Grandma’s old house by the woods. Along one side of it ran a river that separated us from the main road. The only way over the water was across an old, wooden, swinging...