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Jul 25, 2016
2 min

Overcomer

“God does not give us overcoming life – He gives us life as we overcome.” Oswald Chambers My son began climbing rock walls a year ago. There was a route he wasn’t able to do initially, but he tried multiple times to ascend it. He watched others do it. He picked a portion of it, projected it, and tried various ways until he conquered that section of it, and committed it to memory. Then he tried different approaches to climb up the next segment till he surmounted that too. He

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Oct 26, 2015
2 min

A Closet Full of Godly Character

“The expression of Christian character is not good doing, but God-likeness.” Oswald Chambers I go through the same routine every day. I open the closet door and try to decide what to wear, how I will clothe myself for that day. I usually start with a pair of pants and then figure out which blouse goes best with it. Some days I have more to choose from, depending on whether or not I’m caught up with my ironing. And because ironing is one of my least favorite tasks, I often hav

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Jul 29, 2013
3 min

In His Time

“It is always the simple things that change our lives. And these things never happen when you are looking for them to happen. Life will reveal answers at the pace life wishes to do so. You feel like running, but life is on a stroll. This is how God does things.” Donald Miller Over forty years ago, my sister wrote on the back of her high school senior photo, “Your time will come.” She was encouraging me, the one who didn’t date much in high school, to hang in there, for one da

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