inherited
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What My Father Left Behind
“Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.” — Exodus 20:12 Tomorrow would have been my dad’s eighty-sixth birthday. He has been gone a few years now, and birthdays have a way of making absence feel different. They bring back memories,…
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When God Leaves Something to Fight
There are times when I would very much like God to remove some struggles altogether. Flatten the mountain. Silence the opposition. Close the difficult door before I ever reach it. Spare me the detour, the resistance, the uncertainty, and preferably anything requiring character development before breakfast. But sometimes God does something very different. Sometimes He…
