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"Her children rise up and call her happy; her husband too, and he praises her." — Proverbs 31:28 Dear Becca, You called last night and we talked for thirty minutes about nothing and it was one of the better conversations I have had all week, which tells you
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"Be still, and know that I am God." — Psalm 46:10 I read the Forty-sixth Psalm this morning and stopped where I always stop, which is the tenth verse. Be still, and know that I am God. I have read this verse more times than I can
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"And the LORD God planted a garden in Eden, in the east; and there he put the man whom he had formed. Out of the ground the LORD God made to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight and good for food." — Genesis 2:8-9
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"To you, O LORD, I lift up my soul." — Psalm 25:1 There is a window in the morning before the heat comes and I try to be in my chair with my coffee and my journal before it closes. By seven the sun has found the kitchen
Sunday Letter
"By the tender mercy of our God, the dawn from on high will break upon us, to give light to those who sit in darkness and in the shadow of death, to guide our feet into the way of peace." — Luke 1:78-79 It is Sunday evening
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"How lovely is your dwelling place, O LORD of hosts! My soul longs, indeed it faints for the courts of the LORD; my heart and my flesh sing for joy to the living God. Even the sparrow finds a home, and the swallow a nest for herself." — Psalm
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"The kingdom of heaven is like a mustard seed that someone took and sowed in his field; it is the smallest of all the seeds, but when it has grown it is the greatest of shrubs and becomes a tree." — Matthew 13:31-32 The children have been
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"Not that I am referring to being in need; for I have learned to be content with whatever I have. I know what it is to have little, and I know what it is to have plenty. In any and all circumstances I have learned the secret of being
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"Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they neither toil nor spin, yet I tell you, even Solomon in all his glory was not clothed like one of these." — Matthew 6:28-29 The cherry tomatoes have come in and I ate three of them standing
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"He has made everything suitable for its time; moreover he has put a sense of past and future into their minds, yet they cannot find out what God has done from the beginning to the end." — Ecclesiastes 3:11 I have been thinking about the summers when I
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"When you pass through the waters, I will be with you; and through the rivers, they shall not overwhelm you." — Isaiah 43:2 There is a woman at church I have been praying for and I do not know how she is doing this week because I have
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"Let me hear of your steadfast love in the morning, for in you I put my trust. Teach me the way I should go, for to you I lift up my soul." — Psalm 143:8 The town is quiet this morning the way it always is on the