Tag: Gospel
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Wedding Invitations
My son and his fiancé have been planning their wedding. It’s quite the challenge in this pandemic. They picked the date long before stores and venues shut down. They chose the anniversary of a disastrous, near fatal accident my son had five years ago. Both had decided to redeem the bad memory and turn it…
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Ground Zero
It started at ground zero. A microscopic organism caused havoc on an entire planet and shut down the World in the physical realm. It made us worry, fear, retreat, and isolate. What might God do, if we became truly infected with His love? What if we stopped protecting our hearts from His painful work in…
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Of Monsters and Beasts
I came in the house carried food from afar Like women of old, who shopped at bazaars. Was tired and beat from reading the signs, From standing on blue tape and waiting in lines. “How was it?” my hubs and all the kids asked. I collapsed in the chair and took off my mask. “Oh,…
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Change
The other day my teenage daughter came to me with a photo of her when she was a toddler. Because we adopted her when she was older, I didn’t know her back then. She told me what she remembered about the photo and the circumstances. It made us chuckle at the changes that have taken…
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The Beauty of the Cross
I headed out early into a cold morning. I found myself at the foot of an empty cross. I am overwhelmed by the Love of God, who allows me to look at an empty cross. My sins have been cancelled. That which stands in the way of my relationship with the Lover of my soul…
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Shiny Sins
I don’t mind cleaning, most days that is. The smell of a freshly cleaned floor and the sight of a shiny kitchen counter even brings me joy. That’s why decided, several years ago, to make cleaning my profession. It pays well and fits in with my schedule. The flexible hours are great and allow me…
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The Heart of Christmas
The heart of Christmas can’t be found In strings of lights on trees. It doesn’t beat in Christmas sounds. With eyes it can’t be seen. The heart of Christmas you can’t buy In store, or shop, or mall. In sleigh with reindeer it can’t fly, Nor through your chimney fall. The heart of Christmas is…
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Good News
This last week, I was visiting a friend at her orchard. Branches were bending with lush fruit and my senses were overwhelmed with a deep awareness of God’s abundant provisions. If you are finding yourself in a desperate place today, hurt and in need of some good news, please take heart, my friend. The Maker…
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His Present Light
I am sitting in my office. Outside my window, the new day is peeking over the horizon through a small patch of trees. The sky has slowly started on fire. These moments draw my eyes upward. Marvelous red and orange colors melt together with purple and blue. The night is soaked up into the dawn.…
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I Am Not Who You Think I Am
“I am not who you think I am.” That is what I said again this morning, while waving back at the friendly oncoming traffic. People have been waving at me like crazy, ever since we purchased this vehicle. At first, I thought nothing of it. But over these past several months, this waving has not…
Heidi Viars 