Star for the Journey

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  • The First Concern

    A few days ago, I witnessed a scene in a grocery store that has stayed with me. A young mother was standing in the checkout line with three small children. The youngest, perhaps four years old, was helping place items on the conveyor belt. It made me smile. I thought to myself, Boy, you don’t…

  • The Storm Doesn’t Always Ask Permission

    Scripture Focus: “He maketh the storm a calm, so that the waves thereof are still.” — Psalm 107:29 Storms are interesting things. Not the poetic kind people frame in black-and-white photography with captions about resilience. I mean the real kind. The kind that interrupts plans, rattles windows, rearranges priorities, and occasionally leaves you standing in…