I can’t think about that church without thinking about my father. It was built 35 years ago when I was in kindergarten. We lived next door, and every day during the build my dad and I would walk around the building site inspecting the progress. First footings, deep in the earth. Then the forms...
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I’ve been glum and off-balance and snappish and restless for no logical reason today. Except part way through the day, after pushing away the feelings a hundred times, I realized I did know why. My heart won’t quit aching for the loss that Steven Curtis Chapman and his family are facing. Maybe it is...
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Psalm 61: 2-4
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Song of Solomon 2:11-12
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In quietness and trust is your strength. Isaiah 30:15
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O to grace how great a debtor Daily I’m constrained to be! Let thy goodness, like a fetter, Bind my wandering heart to thee. Prone to wander, Lord, I feel it, Prone to leave the God I love; Here’s my heart, O take and seal it, Seal it for thy courts above. (lyrics)
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Psalm 24:1-2
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(Quite possibly my favorite hymn in the universe)   God sent His son, they called Him Jesus He came to love, heal, and forgive. He lived and died to buy my pardon, An empty grave is there to prove my Savior lives. Because He lives, I can face tomorrow. Because He lives, All fear...
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Deuteronomy 8:7,10 For the LORD your God is bringing you into a good land— a land with streams and pools of water, with springs flowing in the valleys and hills… …When you have eaten and are satisfied, praise the LORD your God for the good land he has given you.
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2 Samuel 22:33-34 It is God who arms me with strength and makes my way perfect. He makes my feet like the feet of a deer; he enables me to stand on the heights.
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