Prayer
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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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Blue September
At first, there was only darkness. Concrete pressed against concrete,dust thickened every breath,and somewhere beyond the weight of it allcame sounds too distant to name. He called out. Then again. Nothing. Until somewhere above hima thread of light appearedbetween broken steel and stone. And beyond it— blue. September blue. The same impossible bluethat had stretched…
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The Junk Drawer Solution
Scripture Focus: “And I will give them one heart, and I will put a new spirit within you; and I will take the stony heart out of their flesh, and will give them an heart of flesh.” — Ezekiel 11:19 Every home has a repair drawer. It may not officially be called that—I call mine…
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The Crooked Cart
Scripture Focus: “I thought on my ways, and turned my feet unto thy testimonies.” — Psalm 119:59 There is always one shopping cart in the row that looks perfectly respectable until you commit to it. At first, nothing seems wrong. Four wheels. Clean basket. No mysterious sticky substance on the handle. You pull it free,…
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When Compromise Starts Collecting Rent
Scripture Focus: “And the LORD was with Joseph…” (Judges 1:22). “And it came to pass, when Israel was strong, that they put the Canaanites to tribute, and did not utterly drive them out” (Judges 1:28). “And the Amorites forced the children of Dan into the mountain: for they would not suffer them to come down…
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Beneath
The thorn remained. Prayer lingered. And the storm spent itselfagainst the surface. But beneath the noise,beneath the fear,below the surfaceof my knowing, a deeper current moved. Silent. Steady. Unmoved. And though the waters abovewere troubled, something belowremained still. It was there,my soul found rest. If this poem stirred something in your heart, remember that the…
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The Sound of a Praying Father
Scripture Focus: “The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much.” — James 5:16 When I think of my father, many memories come to mind, but one rises above most of the others. The sound of him praying. While my dad was still living, I didn’t always fully appreciate what I was hearing. It…
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Small Things Matter
There are certain moments in nature that almost feel too gentle for this world. A leaf drifting slowly from a tree. Snow falling in complete silence. Tiny drops of rain gathering along the edge of a windowpane before finally slipping downward. Small things. Quiet things. The kind of moments most people pass without a second…
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When the Road Disappears Into Fog
There’s something deeply comforting about the fact that some of the greatest people of faith in Scripture were not people who always understood what God was doing. We sometimes imagine faith as fearless certainty where a person never wrestles, never grows weary, and never questions anything. But when you read the life of Abraham, you…
