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Lighting Candles

“What we really need is more proactive good, as well as reactive good. We need to search for ways to attack every area of life with good, rather than waiting for deterioration to force us into reaction. We need to encourage right, not just discourage wrong. We need to...

Addition By Subtraction

I grew up, as many of you did, in a family that went to church every time the doors were open. We were three-times-a-week church-goers, and the only excuse for missing church that my folks would countenance was a clearly verifiable illness. An oft quoted verse I heard...

Precautions

God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble. Therefore we will not fear, though the earth should change, though the mountains shake in the heart of the sea; though its waters roar and foam, though the mountains tremble with its tumult. Psalm 46:1-3...

Who’s That Walking Across My Bridge?

“Fairy tales are more than true—not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.”  – G.K. Chesterton I grew up hearing my dad tell various stories, fables, and fairy tales that gradually became part of our everyday...

Tapestry

“It will be very interesting one day to follow the pattern of our life as it is spread out like a beautiful tapestry. As long as we live here we see only the reverse side of the weaving, and very often the pattern, with its threads running wildly, doesn’t seem...