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Is the Gift Looking at the Gifts?
Is that supposed to be Jesus in the wood stove, eyeing the gifts under the Christmas tree?
life lessons
Trouble and Tea Meet in Dorcas Smucker’s Teapot
I pour myself a cupload for the hilarity...and am not disappointed. Then I discover the life lessons...and am blessed.
Closing his devotional at a recent Hopewell business meeting, our former bishop remarked that he’d been reading a new book that afternoon and had a quote for us:
“The big decisions are the ones that transcend every place and relationship and job — integrity and kindness, mercy and generosity, love and joy and justice.”
When he concluded with “by Dorcas Smucker,” I knew which book he’d been reading. đŸ™‚
A few days after that, I was chatting a bit with one of my high school Spanish students. She had just slipped back into school from her first round of chemo for Hodgkin’s Lymphoma. Read it all
From Contrasts to Thankfulness
'So much of appreciation is in contrasts.' Andrée Seu Peterson (He Let You Hunger)
So much of appreciation is in contrasts.
-Andrée Seu Peterson
-Andrée Seu Peterson
She Lied. Now What?
Andrée Seu Peterson lied to cover for her mother, almost immediately recognized her sin, and eventually wrote an article about it.
I’ll treat you to some tidbits to nibble, then I’ll explain the question in the title: Read it all
Got Ignorance? Don’t Treasure It!
I don’t have to know it all.
Even if everybody else in my group gets it. (Or pretends to.)
I need to do better at putting down my stupid pride.
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Cast Down? Disquieted? Why?
A cause for thankfulness from my reading this morning:
“Why art thou cast down, O my soul?
and why art thou disquieted within me?
hope in God:
for I shall yet praise him,
who is the health of my countenance.”
-Psalm 43:5
and why art thou disquieted within me?
hope in God:
for I shall yet praise him,
who is the health of my countenance.”
-Psalm 43:5
Check the Rebel Sigh
And the rising doubt, too.
Teach me to feel that Thou art always nigh;
Teach me the struggles of the soul to bear.
To check the rising doubt, the rebel sigh,
Teach me the patience of unanswered prayer.
Yep, Spirit of God, Descend upon My Heart was one of the songs we sang in church tonight.
That is quite the stanza — so pertinent to me!
I’m just noticing, though, that the author seemed to think the patience learned through unanswered prayer would check both rising doubts and rebel sighs.
Oh. My.
It seems I’ve certainly had plenty of some of those…