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No bad days and no bad parts… “Holy, holy, holy…” Revelation 4:8 Everyone has a character. We have either a good character or a bad one, or – most likely – a mixture of both. We’ve all used the figure of speech, “That guy has character,” or, “She has no character at all.” But in …
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“Do you know what you really need?” I want to know God. I mean I really do want to know him. It’s a core value for me. It’s not that I don’t want to do things for him – that too. But I figure that I can’t show him any better than I can know …
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Someday the shroud will be removed altogether and we’ll live where God lives with nothing in between. For now we get only glimpses of him “through a shroud vaguely,” but there we’ll gaze upon him and see him as he actually is! I trust we’ll be able to stand the sight. In the meantime, we …
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I wonder… I wonder about God a lot. I used to wonder if he existed, but since I got that settled (to my complete satisfaction), my wonder is now of a different sort. “Wonder” itself has a number of connotations, some of which are part of the kind of wonder I have about God. There’s …
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Faith includes noticing the mess, the emptiness and discomfort, and letting it be there until some light returns. Anne Lamott “Trust for a miracle with all your heart” is not exactly what Solomon wrote. He did write, however, “Trust in the Lord with all your heart” (Proverbs 3). Trusting in him helps me live peacefully …
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