Tag: Kathy Sheldon Davis
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Hope after Election Blues – Psalm 118:8-9
Did you take the candidate’s announcement of his departure from the race as hard as so many folks did? While I was making dinner my husband held his cell phone so I could see the video and hear the crowd’s protests. Some voiced disbelief, some shouted, “No!” Some groaned. Soon my social media was flooded with…
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On Voting and “What Would Jesus Do” – Isaiah 46:9-11
Our voter’s pamphlet arrived a couple days ago, and it’s calling me from the pile on my kitchen table. How should I vote? Remember WWJD? Does it work during election time to ask myself what Jesus would do, how he would vote? Such a question leads only to guessing, and I want something more solid than speculation.…
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New Life Comes from Cutting Back – John 15:1-2
I killed our apple tree this winter when I pruned it. Ducking under its lopped stubs, I hung the long-handled cutting tool on its pegs. How could the poor tree survive that, I wondered. It’s happened before, when I worried I went too far in my efforts to improve a plant’s productivity. But what I’ve…
