The Words of a Sigh

There is something about a familiar story that causes us to pass over details.  I discovered that recently while reading from the Gospel of Mark. Having read this Book numerous times, I was surprised that two words suddenly stood out, as though I was discovering them for the first time.  What were they?  “He sighed.”  […]

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Places in Time

I was in a melancholy mood to say the least.  Sitting in a box truck filled with belongings of a dear friend, the two-day journey provided plenty of time for thought. The cargo my late husband and I were hauling was on its way to a storage barn. After months of unemployment, our young friend […]

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One Such As I

What do you do when God’s incomprehensible love doesn’t match your understanding? How do you respond? Her name was Gomer. The Bible doesn’t tell us anything about her background ~ what her childhood was like, what her hopes were, what her heart longed for or what she encountered along the way to womanhood. Neither does […]

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When Love Grieves

Visitation was over. As families said their good-byes and waited in line for the locked steel doors to electronically release, one elderly African-American man broke the silence with soft words. “The hour goes fast, doesn’t it?” His eyes were kind, but sad. “It does.” I replied. I could sense he needed something more, so I […]

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