Tag Archives: hope

Beyond the Struggle

I sometimes struggle to release myself from my own plans and believe that he has included me in his. Beyond that struggle lies the place where peace passes understanding and where I can live the abundant life.

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Looking Toward Day

Inconvenience is so much less trying than tragedy and aggravation easier to negotiate than catastrophe.
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Prayer for Today

May your faith be replenished
by him who does not waver.
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A Slow Planting

This body is not the substance of our immortality but is rather its seed. And no seed can bear its fruit until it has been planted. Continue reading

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Easing Over

It is never easy to let go, to know that the last conversation upon this earth has been had. Continue reading

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The Morel of the Story-Part I

Without a determined faith and a confident hope, it’s kind of hard to put in the kind of work that leads to good results.
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Hope with Hot-Rize Plus

Funny thing about hot bread in the oven when you open the back door on a cool, rainy evening after a long day at the office (or anywhere else): that aroma alone can make you think that there is good left in the world and that you might even get a piece of it. Continue reading

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A Warming Light

From these who overcame by the Word, who endured all things, who surrendered their souls to him who had given them, who Continue reading

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Whether Forecast

What is clear, though, is that God’s love and mercy, his faithfulness, his leading and calling, his provision and training are not dependent upon climate patterns, not altered by Arctic blasts nor stalled out fronts. Continue reading

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Choices

In the dark of this morning’s dawning, I hold to these few minutes of quietness. Continue reading

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