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February 27, 2012

Transformed

Have you had an experience lately that changed the way you look at life? God wants to transform us and the way we look at life. This Journal entry inspired by the events of Christ’s transfiguration as recorded in Mark 9:2-9 Continue reading

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January 12, 2012

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… Continue reading

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December 5, 2011

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… Continue reading

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November 29, 2011

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. Continue reading

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November 27, 2011

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. Continue reading

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November 18, 2011

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… Continue reading

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November 12, 2011

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. Continue reading

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October 27, 2011

Picking Up Pebbles

Just lately I was challenged with an idea that we often pick up pebbles in life that help us solve temporary problems and don’t give them to God, our rock and salvation. And when it’s all over, all we have is a pocket full of pebbles and have traveled further from God than we thought.… Continue reading

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September 26, 2011

Satan’s Ammunition

“Satan can only use what we try to hide.” A lady named Sondra Redmon said that to me lately. I liked it. Continue reading

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September 24, 2011

To Everything Its Own Time

I fell into a manhole called “what good am I to anyone?” I didn’t see anyone one all day, didn’t lift anyone out of the depths of despair, didn’t change someone’s life. So, I asked myself what good am I? And God said “Someone has to do laundry, and you are elected.” What’s your equivalent… Continue reading

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