A Knight’s Tale

I've always been a romantic. One of my earliest memories is of sitting atop a small hill in our backyard on my mighty three-wheeled steed (my tricycle) and feeling the wind in my face.  At my core, I wanted to be a knight in shining armor. A bold, daring adventurer who stood for what was …

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For Those Left Behind

1 Thessalonians 4:15-17  For this we say to you by the word of the Lord, that we who are alive and remain until the coming of the Lord will by no means precede those who are asleep.  For the Lord Himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of an archangel, and …

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The Better Way

Judges 7:19-20  "So Gideon, and the hundred men that were with him, came unto the outside of the camp in the beginning of the middle watch; and they had but newly set the watch: and they blew the trumpets, and brake the pitchers that were in their hands.  And the three companies blew the trumpets, …

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The Woodworker’s Shop

Jeremiah 18:1-3  "The word which came to Jeremiah from the Lord, saying, Arise, and go down to the potter's house, and there I will cause thee to hear my words.  Then I went down to the potter's house, and, behold, he wrought a work on the wheels." I dreamed I went to a woodworker's shop.  …

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So, I Choose

I turned fifty today.  I am not where I planned to be, nor anywhere close to where I imagined I'd be.  I had hoped to be married with a family of my own, doing something productive that I enjoyed, and looking forward to retirement in fifteen to twenty years.  But life didn't turn out that …

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Consider My servant

Seems like I’m always in the middle of some mess.  I've heard you’re either going into a storm, going through a storm, or going out of one.  And there’s not much room between going out of one and going into the next.  It may be normal for life, but it is taxing on the soul. …

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