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For as the heavens reach beyond earth and time, we swim in mercy as in an endless sea. (Psalm 103:11) // We sat together in sunny silence as snow lay all around like a smooth and glassy sea and over the waters of white danced the songs of the birds. ...
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“Let me tell you a story,” Estevan said. “This is a story about heaven and hell. If you go visit hell, you will see a room like this kitchen. There is a pot of delicious stew on the table, with the most delicate aroma you can imagine. All around, people sit,...
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I woke up early on the morning I was scheduled to preach and drove to the spacious, wooded park a few blocks from our house. In preparation for speaking on the story of Elijah’s widow, I wanted to gather enough sticks to spread across a make-shift altar space,...
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I’ve had a hard time finding words lately, or finding time for words perhaps. My husband says that what I need is some good old “normal,” but I look at him wryly wondering what exactly normal might be. Anyway, there are days, you know, when the...
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We inherited several gallon-sized bags of blueberries when my in-laws sold their house and moved to Florida. I like to think that they were handpicked by my mother-in-law some time ago, back before the brain tumor and multiple surgeries left her partially...
