Category Archives: Christian Living

Dark Waters

The breach sent floodwaters rolling across fertile farmland and forced residents of the area to leave. Continue reading

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Plan B

Most often, doing something is far more productive than lamenting the distance between what we had hoped for and the reality of our lives. Continue reading

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Prayer for Today

May your faith be replenished
by him who does not waver.
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Home Place

It’s the years of living and belonging, of knowing folks, of having shared some of the worst and best that life can send your way. Continue reading

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Time for Pruning

It is often easy to make the wrong snip, to take away what could have soon been lovely. Continue reading

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Window Watching

In a world where the ordinary can become spectacular, yet last only an instant, we ought to live with our eyes open. Continue reading

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Prep Work

If you really want to know how level and/or smooth a concrete floor is, you can start with a long level or some other object with a true edge. Continue reading

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Enjoying the Garden

We sat in the slight darkness on the sun porch, eating our toast and eggs, watching hummingbirds dispute access privileges at the sugar water dispenser near the bee balm and butterfly bush.
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The Great Cover-Up

It was a good thing it was small because if something that ugly was big, it would be bad. Very bad. I’m talking about the micro-bathroom on the main floor of this house. Continue reading

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Family Matters

During that twenty or thirty minutes, he mentioned some of the challenges he and his wife had with the boy’s adoption and raising. Continue reading

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