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If I were to characterize Jesus’ ministry, it would be to refocus people away from a sin focus and onto a life focus. Where you give your focus, you give your energy. – Vern Hyndman Wednesday my husband came home early to take our daughter to...
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“I’m working on being more spontaneous,” she said with a straight face and all the seriousness of someone for whom spontaneity is struggle. She was one of my first mentors and the comment was made in passing, but it’s stuck with me for sixteen...
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(For the past several months, I’ve participated in a group organized by Oasis Ministries that meets for monthly silent retreat days. We meet one Saturday a month at an old farm turned retreat center near Elizabethown, PA.) I arrive in the nick of time,...
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(Our truck isn’t nearly this old, but some days it feels like it . . . ) See, I am sending my messenger to prepare the way before me, and the Lord whom you seek will suddenly come to his temple. The messenger of the covenant in whom you delight—indeed, he is...
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“Slow down.” These words rise from heart to head each morning as I wake. I hear them walking away from a networking meeting at the small, brick café down the street. I hear them when the kids whirl around the kitchen like snowflakes in a blizzard and it’s...
