Author: Heidi Viars
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A Bright Future
My future as bright as Your promise to me, That hope in my heart is secure as can be. That my feet walk with peace and steadfast resolve, That Your plans for me stand – those no one can thwart. My future as bright as Your promise to me, That…
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Digging Wells
Been sitting here in this pit for a while. It’s deep in the ground, I bet it’s a mile. Been digging this hole for days, until now Lost track of the time and sunlight somehow. It’s dark and lonely, here in this sad well. I wonder how long I must…
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Imago Dei
His image printed on each face In every heart displayed His glory mirrored in each race Throughout the earth arrayed His picture on the weakest child On old and frail, there too In men and women – both alike His likeness peers on through In those despised by this world’s…
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After All
After listening to Chris Fabry Live today, I was inspired to write my sweet hubby a Valentine’s card. This year we will be married for 28 years. He is still the love of my life.
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Bean By Bean – A Mother’s Look Back on 2015
Earlier this year I calculated my life in days. I estimated that if I live to a little over 80, the total amount of days would amount to roughly 30,000. I then did something what a couple of my family members consider morbid. I took two big glass jars…
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Small Deeds
(My son posted this yesterday on his Facebook after he received something at work. It strikes me how easy it is to make someone’s day a little brighter, especially this time of year. It has been an encouragement for me to seek for opportunities of small acts of kindness. We…
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Choosing to Remember
Tomorrow, we are going to get the tree. We are going to do what we have done for years as a family, walk all over the tree farm and spy out the perfect one. We may fuss a little and bicker a while before my husband will put the ax…
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The Cloth
In plain white cloth of earthen yarn They wrapped Him after He was born. A wooden manger held Him here, God’s precious Son, the Kingdom’s heir. A Friend of Man and Heart of God, There in this earth’s brown, filthy sod, He lay and let this world behold The plan…
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The Key
27 years ago this Christmas, my husband and I boarded a Pan Am flight from Frankfurt, Germany to Detroit, only 5 days after Flight 103 exploded on the same route over Lockerbie, Scotland. We just married that summer and were much more adventurous than wise. I was leaving my home…
