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“Rather than fixating on what we cannot know, it’s better to focus on what we can. Henri Nouwen: “The real enemies of our life are the ‘oughts’ and the ‘ifs.’ They pull us backward into the unalterable past and forward into the unpredictable future. But real life takes place in the here and now.” “If…
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Paul asks the question in Romans 8:31: “If God is for us, who can be against us?” The question isn’t simply, “Who can be against you?” You could answer that one. Who is against you? Disease, inflation, corruption, and exhaustion. Calamities-confront us and fears imprison. Were Paul’s question, “Who can be against us?” we could…
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A cosmic game of hide and seek is often how many view the search for God. “Where are you?” is the question that echoes throughout the ages as human beings seek for God in a vast universe often filled with inexplicable mystery- Margaret a Manning Oct 19, 2020 Have you ever wondered where God was…
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Gal 6:4 let everyone be sure to do their very best, for then he will have the personal satisfaction of work done well & won’t need to compare himself with someone else. Gee, do you ever feel inadequate? I am an avid reader of devotions. They make me think & want to know more about Jesus. But when…
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Just a thought by coppi “Our tendency is to feel intuitively that the more difficult life gets, the more alone we are. As we sink further into pain, we sink further into felt isolation. The Bible corrects us. Our pain never outstrips what he himself shares in. We are never alone. That sorrow that feels…
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But his death, (Bourdain) coming just days after the suicide of the beloved designer Kate Spade, is at least as noteworthy for another reason: how powerfully it speaks to the discrepancy between what we see of people on the outside and what they’re experiencing on the inside; between their public faces and their private realities;…
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Just a thought by coppi’ I was led to believe that doubt is the opposite of faith. But the older I get, the more I realize that couldn’t be further from the truth. I recently saw an amazing quote from Cole Arthur Riley of @blacklituries that said, “Doubt is not a threat to faith: it’s faith that…
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” Everyone lives in a prison of one kind or another, but true freedom can transcend the stone walls of any confinement, & one’s spirit can soar like an eagle if the individual lays aside earthy problems to think on heavenly things”. “Feelings come & go like clouds, but the hills & stars abide”. “You…
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Strong Christians see God in both the good & the bad. The mature believer sees God not only in pleasures & palaces, but also in the barnyards & stables of life. (John Maxwell) Just a thought by coppi Wise men follow the star but the star did not lead them to a palace but a barnyard. I…
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Ian, which was the hurricane which hit Florida with torrential rains and winds destroying everything in and around its space and causing disaster beyond one’s imagination. I live in Tampa, Fl and we missed the eye of the hurricane by a turning to the east a few hours before it was to hit us. We did…
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