Category: Bible Reading
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A Pregnancy Test and Fish Hooks – Matthew 4:18-22
Setting the box down on the counter at the River Road Bi-Mart, I watched the clerk’s eyes as she read the pregnancy test label and scanned the load of children attached to my cart. Her gaze rested on the baby kicking against my thigh. Her smile tightened a little as she rang up my order, but she said nothing. I imagined…
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Longing for Home – Psalm 84
One of our foster daughters was Little Miss Sunshine. She bounced on her toes all day long with the joy of living, her curls dancing over her shoulders. But quieting down in her room at night, we’d hear her crying. I attempted to comfort and pray with her, but I couldn’t give her what she yearned…
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Scotch Tape and Proverbs 3:3-4
Have you ever felt punished because you are a quiet person? I have, though I understand why the teacher moved her rowdy, disruptive student next to me in second grade. He stirred up drama, and I had no interest in participating in his drama. I’m sure she hoped that being my seat mate would compel him to give…
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Who am I in Relationship to the Stars? – Psalm 8
Summer is my family’s camping season, and that means I’ll spend time out in the open looking at stars. It’s healthy for me somehow. It calms me to realize how small I am, though I wonder at my place in God’s grand scheme of things. I lose track of who I am so easily, especially when I forget to look…
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The “Thank Dad Here” House
With our tummies full of chilled root beer and the window rolled down on hot summer evenings, I squeezed my bony knees together under my cotton dress, anticipating the moment we’d pass the designated house. I practiced the thank-you-for-the-root-beer-dad speech in my mind, hoping it would sound unrehearsed when I delivered it. My Mission As strongly as a…
