Category: Following Jesus
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Traveling with a Sock Full of Seeds / Excess Baggage – Hebrews 7:25
If you want to be pulled aside by security in an airport, put a sock filled with flax seeds in your luggage. I didn’t expect such a thing to be so interesting to TSA, but it was, raising eyebrows both times it passed under their scanners. Why the sock? Well, my therapist told me using…
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When There’s Fear in the Shadows – Psalm 23:3-4
Sometimes being in the dark is fun. When I’m playing with my grandchildren I allow my imagination to run a little wild. I jump behind a tree or freeze in the shadows so they won’t easily find me. Other times the shadows make me afraid. I’m in a place now where I don’t know the…
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The Best Reason to Rejoice – Luke 10:17-20
It’s satisfying to reach a goal, like when I showed sample pages of my manuscript to my dream editor – and he asked to see more. Or when my publisher offered me a devotional contract. It was also rewarding to pose with dozens of other finalists for the Oregon Christian Writers Cascade award, though I…
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Will God Answer all our Questions? – Exodus 4:10-12
Have you heard someone say that they’d like to ask God a few questions? Like why he allows children to be traumatized, war, natural disasters, Alzheimer’s, or ? Let’s say I’m 90 when I die. I enter heaven with a pencil stuck behind my ear, gripping my cane. In my other hand is a long…
