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2021: Better? Or More Need of Endurance?
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2021: Better? Or More Need of Endurance?

I can’t wait for 2020 to be done! 2021 has got to be better. I keep hearing that and I’m just not so sure. But I know we have need of endurance. Need Of Endurance That’s how the author of the book of Hebrews put it, For you have need of endurance, so that when you have done the will of God you may receive what…

LIVE NOT BY LIES: 7 Questions for Lovers of the Truth
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LIVE NOT BY LIES: 7 Questions for Lovers of the Truth

We have to be push-backers, Abigail. Truth demands it. That from a recent email from a friend-who-shall-go-unnamed. This post is that: a little pushback. It is not a call to civil disobedience, to wear a mask or to take it off, or even to vote. It is a call to not live by lies—a call…

Contentment & Things Too Wonderful
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Contentment & Things Too Wonderful

I have not learned the secret of contentment. I am learning it. But my old soul still gets ruffled and squirmy when I’m not in on decisions that affect me. And maybe that are just, like David wrote, “too great and wonderful for me.” But this last time around taught me that having a weaned soul, a content soul, must mean trusting that our Father sees what we can’t see, knows what we don’t know and and can manage what we can’t manage. Believing this calms the soul.