Category: Inspirational
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Crawl Over the Rubble
Who says Sunday School Lessons are not important? The lesson on Nehemiah rebuilding the walls got me to thinking about the rubble in my life, and the courage it takes for us to climb over the feelings and left over hurts, quit keeping score and let God take care of it all. Then we can…
Jo Bower (Randall)
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Crawl Over The Rubbish
The sunday School lesson was on Nehmiah chapter four about the rebuilding of the walls of Jeruselem, and the mocking of the peopel who were working. But the thing that struck me was a visual picture of the workers crawling over the rubbish, picking up the good rocks to use again to repair the wall.…
Jo Bower (Randall)
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THE STONES CRY OUT
The stones cry out …. the problem with the stones crying out is we want them confirm how we wamt to live: what we want do and how we want to do it. The point God is making is if we bend God’s message to fit us rather than striving to come to God, and…
Jo Bower (Randall)
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CARRY ON
Well, we got through last year, but already things are changing. Oh dear! What has God got planned for this year? God tapped me on the shoulder and reminded me.
Jo Bower (Randall)
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Staying Out of Trouble
Why do some people seem to live without getting into all the scraps and brushes with trouble adn terrrible consequesces of life’s decisions? I believe we can ask God to give us wisdom to see what the end result of our actions will be… while we are in the process of making the decision. Maybe…
Jo Bower (Randall)
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Don’t Touch My Christmas
This is my half-humorous, mostly serious declaration of why Christmas is not just for kids. It’s not, you know.
Jo Bower (Randall)
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Forever and Always In God’s Presence
In this devotion from my second novel, The Twins of Zae, I record my fascination with our concepts of being in the presence of God, yet having the presence of God within us.
Jo Bower (Randall)
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We Long To Share
“You know those writers who insist they write only for themselves, And they don’t care if anyone else ever reads it?” he asked. I nodded, having heard that from someone. “They lie,” he asserted. “We write, hoping someone will read it. We write because we want to share.” How we try to fool ourselves…. but…
Jo Bower (Randall)
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A Straight Line To God
God Writes straight with a crooked lines. We always head for God, but the line is not always straight. Distractions, new lessons, growth spurts, our own stubbornness and God’s own lessong to learn often add kinks, curves, and turns in our life’s road toward God.
Jo Bower (Randall)
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The Absence of Angst
I hope you all are looking forward to the Thanksgiving spirit of November. I have been so full of God and his blessings I just have wanted to sit back and indulge in feeling them. I wrote about it on my blog. Enjoy ‘The Absence of Angst.’
Jo Bower (Randall)
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