Category: Daily Inspiration
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The Taste of Love
Recently, while both my husband and I were “under the weather,” our daughter offered to, first, have food delivered to us, then decided to make soup which she would bring, and as she termed it, “plate it” for us…provided certain protocols were observed on our part. Since she had upcoming travel plans, she didn’t want…
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God’s Face
On the weekend, while presenting at a retreat for Spiritual Directors, following a re-mem-ber-ing your favorite Bible story exercise, a participant shared a story with me that I share here, with her permission. Early in her nursing career, she told me, she was an OB nurse, and one day, one of her fellow nurses shared…
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Worry
Don’t worry about anything; instead, pray about everything. Tell God what you need and thank him for all he has done. (Philippians 4:6 NLT) I saw my mother do it, and I swore I wouldn’t. But, some days… Worry is the sweaty palm that slaps you senseless…the hand, white-knuckled with fear, that can choke the…
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Pressing Through
Blessed are they who keep pressing and pressing through…their faith to prove and their strength to renew…for they will not die but learn to fly…and furthermore, to soar. (Isaiah 40:31 – IMOW) When the caterpillar thought that she would surely die…when she had no more strength or will to try… she found her wings and…
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My Mother was a Storyteller
My mother was the first storyteller that I knew, except I didn’t know that that’s what she was. Not until later. I knew she would tell stories, but I didn’t know she was a storyteller until I read a story in a book that I had heard her tell. When my mother came to live…