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Trust
About twenty years or so ago it started becoming popular at corporate events to have an activity called the “trust game.” Sometimes these games were physical and involved actions such as blind folding a participant and having a colleague lead her through an obstacle course. Or having a co-worker close his eyes and fall back…
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Noel
It’s hard not to get into the Christmas spirit, isn’t it? I mean, just look around! Every other yard, it seems, has huge blow-up reindeer, and snowmen, and elves, and skeletons left over from Halloween now dressed in Santa suits. (Why?) All the stores are playing cheery Christmas music at top volume reminding us it’s…
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Help
The Our Daily Bread devotional for this past Tuesday was called “Asking for God’s Help.” The author talked about how when she was young, she felt like she shouldn’t ask for God’s help for small things. It felt petty and selfish. There were lots of people with big problems that needed God’s attention. I have…
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Thanks Giving
Just like clockwork the winter holidays are upon us, year after year. We should be happy about that, right? At Thanksgiving most of us gather as a family at a relative’s house for a huge festive meal. We catch each other up on what’s happened in our lives since the last time we visited. We…
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Sting
1 Corinthians 15:55 says: O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory? We as Christ believers carry eternity in our souls. We know there is victory in Jesus. Our reward is not in this world; it’s in Heaven. What glorious knowledge to carry in our hearts and minds that we have…
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Celebrate
I’ve written before about “grief seasons.” Bereaved parents often experience a period each year where their grief is especially strong because of recurring triggers within that timeframe. Most of these triggers are self-evident: your child’s birthday, death date, holidays, etc. Grief seasons aren’t limited to child loss, of course. There are similar triggers associated with…
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Memories
I am writing this on Thursday, October 30th. Tomorrow would be Rachel’s 39th birthday. After I typed that sentence, I had to walk around and compose myself a bit. Your child should never be in your past. I’ve talked before about what not to say to a bereaved parent. Pretty much any sentence that starts…
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Logical
A couple of years ago I wrote a blog post titled “It Could Happen Again.” I talked about my fear of losing another child or a grandchild. This fear is always in the back of my mind, no matter how much logic I talk to myself. For example, according to the National Center for Health…
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Words
Many of my friends who are writers have had a significant loss in their lives (child, spouse, parent, marriage, home, job, etc.). These losses are devastating even if they were foreseen. My mother died of breast cancer in 1995 at age 62. She was diagnosed with the disease five years prior and the doctors warned…
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Trouble
In the Our Daily Bread devotional for October 7th, Arthur Jackson talks about something Oswald Chambers wrote at the beginning of WWI. He references John 16:33 where Jesus warns his disciples of the “inevitability of peril.” Bad things will happen. Christ was specifically warning them about his upcoming arrest and crucifixion as well as the…
A Light for My Path 