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The steadfast love of the Lord never ceases, his mercies never come to an end; they are new every morning; great is your faithfulness. – Lamentations 3:22 The field, the road, the driveway were covered when I crept down the stairs in early morning dark. ...
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But Sarah’s heart was full. It was as full as when the sounds of her own children had filled her house. – in “The Mitten Tree” by Candace Christiansen Everywhere I look people are writing about the silence, the quiet hush of these...
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The illustrationshowed a picture of a duck standing over a crack in the ice,one webbed foot on either side. My son, who picked the book, exclaimed over the image on the way home from the library and later, as we read on the couch, his hand reached out to touch...
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You hollow us out, God, so that we may carry you, and you endlessly fill us only to be emptied again. Make smooth our inward spaces and sturdy, that we may hold you with less resistance and bear you with deeper grace. – Jan Richardson ...
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The Annunciation by Henry Ossawa Tanner, 1897 In the sixth month the angel Gabriel was sent by God to a town in Galilee called Nazareth, to a virgin engaged to a man whose name was Joseph, of the house of David. The virgin’s name was Mary. And he came to her and said,...
