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Eve Rehab

Trust in the LORD with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding;  Prov. 3:5 Eve’s vulnerability was that she didn’t trust...

All Things

Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made.  In him was life, and that life was the light of all...

Quiet

“There is something moving in you that needs to stop,” said my counseling professor to me many years ago.  There is a hamster wheel...

Perfectly One

Standing in a circle of four, holding hands with my neighbors and praying on Sunday afternoon brought tears streaming down my face....

But Have Not Love, I Gain Nothing

As Terrell and I wrestle with the question of schooling for our children, a question that never needed wrestling before because we used...

My Father Who Is

Some time back, when buckling Martha Jane into her car seat, her finger got slightly pinched.  So, being a good mother, I kissed it and...

Earned Rest

I was struck down by some sneaky but powerful virus this week which has kept me out of commission for the past three days.  “Out of...

Hold…HOLD…HOLD!…

In the movie Braveheart, there is at least one scene where a battle is about to take place and the peasants who have banded together...

Boiling Pot

I lift up my eyes to the hills.  From where does my help come? My help comes from the Lord, who made heaven and earth.  He will not let...

Dignity

Not for the first time, in our neighborhood yesterday my children witnessed the handcuffing and arrest of a man.  It was a weird sight...

Anger, Control and Desire

Its been apparent to me that I have an anger problem since I became a mother.  But, I should have been more clued in as a child who loved...

Allowing Others to Sin Boldly

I tend to just want to fix people, as if it is up to my eyes to see their problems and my solutions to make them perfect. If I spend more...

Sin Boldly

“If you are a preacher of mercy, do not preach an imaginary but the true mercy. If the mercy is true, you must therefore bear the true,...

No More Ear Chopping

I find myself getting irrationally angry at the “misbehavior” of my 20 month old daughter.  Misbehavior is in quotes because rationally,...

Keeping Up with the Jones

Its the old cliche about keeping up with the cool kids, the neighbors across the street who just put in the swimming pool or parked a...

Juxtaposition

You, therefore, have no excuse, you who pass judgment on someone else, for at whatever point you judge another, you are condemning...

In the Know

As a kid, I was someone who always knew what was going on with people at school.  I was the first to be able to report the “did you...

Now

For in my inner being I delight in God’s law; but I see another law at work in me, waging war against the law of my mind and making me a...

Childish Idols

It is amazing how quick I am to exclude various aspects of my life from the reach of the Gospel.  What I mean is that I am a “new law”...

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