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Rise Above the Fog
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Scripture: “Behold! He comes with clouds.” – Revelation 1:7 What do you see in the clouds? Fog is a cloud that reaches ground level. Similarly, there are circumstances that surround us with “fog.” How do we rise above it? In my second year as Preschool Director at First Presbyterian Church in Florence SC, there was […]
Read MorePatience
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Scripture: “Love is patient…” (1 Corinthians 13:4). “So we have known and believe the love that God has for us. God is love, and those who abide in love abide in God, and God abides in them.” – 1 John 4:16 In this day and age, we have grown accustomed to instant results provided by […]
Read MoreA Lesson in Trust
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Scripture: “My beloved friends, let us continue to love each other since love comes from God. Everyone who loves is born of God and experiences a relationship with God. The person who refuses to love doesn’t know the first thing about God, because God is love—so you can’t know him if you don’t love.” – 1 John 4: […]
Read MoreBetter Days
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Scripture: “The Lord is my strength and my shield; my heart trusts in him, and he helps me. My heart leaps for joy, and with my song I praise him.” – Psalm 28:7 This has not been an easy year for my family or me. We have been and continue to go through some tough […]
Read MoreReady for the Trip
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Scripture: “Blessed is the one… whose delight is in the law of the Lord, and who meditates on His law day and night. That person is like a tree planted by streams of water, which yields its fruit in season and whose leaf does not wither— whatever they do prospers.” – Psalm 1:1, 2-3 (NIV) […]
Read MoreStriving to Be What We Are
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Scripture: “Remember for my good, O my God, all that I have done for this people.” – Nehemiah 5:19 “Unity is God’s gift to the Church in Jesus Christ. Just as God is one God and Jesus Christ is our one Savior, so the Church is one because it belongs to its one Lord, […]
Read MoreI, Like the Starfish
Posted in Suffering/Healing, Trust/Patience
Scripture: “You, God, are my God, earnestly I seek You; I thirst for You, my whole being longs for You, in a dry and parched land where there is no water.” – Psalm 63: 1 God speaks to us in creative ways. Sometimes it’s through scripture that stands out to us or a Sunday […]
Read MoreThe Question of “How?”
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Scripture: “Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called children of God.” – Matthew 5: 9 Every day is a struggle to not fret or worry about something. It even will come during the late night hours and sometimes before finally drifting off to sleep. Circumstances can bring about these things in our lives. […]
Read MoreWailing, Waiting, Wondering
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Scripture: “How long, O Lord? Will You forgt me forever? … How long must I wrestle with my thoughts and every day have sorrow in my heart? How long will my enemy triumph over me? … But I trust in Your unfailing love; my heart rejoices in Your salvation. I will sing to the Lord, […]
Read MoreFixing Our Eyes on the Eternal
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“So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen. For what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen in eternal.” (2 Corinthians 4:18) “We live by faith, not by sight.” (2 Corinthians 5:7) Sight is truly a miraculous gift: Our eyes are incredibly complex organs that enable most […]
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