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A Tree Grows Near Topton
This is a tree that I pass every day on my way to work. It's a nasty trick I have, I'm always snapping pictures while I'm driving. Sometimes I'm alarming other drivers by half hanging out my...
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Trust me, there is NO GOLD at the end of the rainbow.
I never saw any rainbows for the first many years of my life, which probably accounts for my fascination with them. I know I'm not alone in my childlike excitement over them. God thought they...
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How Did We Ever Survive?
One of the doctors I work for and I were just reminiscing about our childhoods. I do wonder how we ever lived past the age of five. I am certain, quite certain, that it is only by the grace of...
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Good Lord, Deliver Us
This is probably not about what you think it's going to be about. It's not about politics, or sin (at least I don't think it will be). It's not about the 'heartbreak of psoriasis' or the horror of...
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Oristiel and the Night of the Pig
As I said previously, when I lived in Haiti, Oristiel was my night watchman, and my protector from the nasty creeping things of the night. My hero. There was one night, though, that he rather failed...
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Oh, Deer, to be in Heaven
I live a bit of a distance from my job, so in the beginning I bought some maps and began to trace ways that might be quicker or shorter. As it joyfully turns out, the shorter and quicker way includes a...
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Rejoicing Over Us With Singing
The LORD your God is with you, he is mighty to save. He will take great delight in you, he will quiet you with his love, he will rejoice over you with singing.Zephaniah 3:17 I don't actually...
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Bird-brains
I love birds. Well, sometimes it's actually a love-hate kind of thing.I love their singing and their bright colors, like the Goldfinches we saw all summer bathing shamelessly in the open in our...
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Hunger Games
OK, I admit it. I read the first book, TheHungerGames. I confess I found it pretty riveting. I could not put the book down, and when I had to leave it, to cook or help with something around the...
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Not "Tin-Grin", but "Knickle Knees"
For some obscure reason, when I was young, I wanted braces on my teeth and eyeglasses. The eyeglasses I got, and as soon as I could, traded them for contact lenses. The dental braces I never got....
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Little Einsteins
OK, OK, I admit it. I'm biased, I'm prejudiced, I have no objectivity at all when it comes to my four nephews (all wonderful and brilliant young men), or their wives, (fine young women, 99.9999%...
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"I was in prison and you came to visit Me."
Something kind of monumental happened several weeks ago, and it's a sad commentary on the busyness of life that I'm just getting around to writing about it now.I was a teenager when I came to faith in...
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"Summer Should Get a Speeding Ticket"
"Summer should get a speeding ticket" was the comment on Facebook that I read, I wish I'd thought of it. Very clever. There certainly is some truth in it. Time has gone by so quickly, this...
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Monose's 'Pocket Full of Miracles'
My sister has asked me to tell you of my dear Haitian friend and sister in Christ, whose name is Monose. There's much to tell, and I'll try to do my best to tell it here. Monose is a Haitian "nurse"...
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Anne Marie
She is first-born, and the sister of my best friend in all the world. She grew up in a pastor's home, and a home filled with music. Both of her parents were musical -- especially her dad, the...
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Miracles
There are miracles, and there are miracles. I've heard of unseen miracles. I just haven't witnessed any because, you know... I can't see them. But then you have your "unheralded" miracles. Now,...
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I find my thoughts on Mom a lot lately. Maybe it’s because it was about this time of year – the spring of 2001 – that she died. She began sharing she was feeling sick just before Thanksgiving, just a...
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