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Peace Examined

850) When you hear the word peace, what do you picture? I see myself sitting on a swing on a porch in the cool of the morning. I hear birds singing and a breeze in the trees. I crave times like this, and I am reminded of the value of peace. The life we live
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Food Coloring in Water

849) When I need to illustrate to my students what kind of impact our actions have on others, I have sometimes used a bowl of water. I have the students gather around it and I take a small bottle of food coloring. I squeeze out one tiny drop into the water and as they watch,
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Mercy Examined

848) In thinking about the subject of mercy–giving something good to someone who may not deserve it, I know automatically that I should extend this to others. What is harder to focus on is the fact that mercy is extended to me, too, by God. I sometimes treat myself as if I were a dictator
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What are you Hungry For?

847) I love the holiday season, beginning with Thanksgiving and culminating in Christmas. There are many reasons for this but one of them is because I can cook some of our favorite dishes. My little dog loves the holidays, too, because he gets to “guard” the turkey in the oven as it cooks. He sits
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Power Under Control

846) Each of us has a variety of powers. We have the power to speak. We have the power to think. We have the power to love or hate. When we read in Matthew 5:5 that the “meek will inherit the earth” the word, meek, as used in the Greek of the New Testament, means
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Love and Pain

845) Pain is a reality of life on this earth and the greater you love, the bigger the pain. For example, you have a pet that you love and when you lose it; the pain is huge. Many of us spend way too much time trying to avoid pain, but in doing so, you squelch
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Who Inherits?

844) Christianity differs from every other religion. One of its distinctions is the fact that “salvation” and/or “heaven” cannot be purchased. Some may think, Come on, I don’t know of any other religion that can be purchased. Yet, this is a fact. When you have a system in place that outlines exactly what you must
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God is so Good

843) When God answers a prayer or gives us help or clear guidance, it’s easy to say, “God is so good.” But what about when God does not answer a prayer in the way we were hoping? What about when help doesn’t come in our timing? What about the situations where clear guidance is elusive?
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The Insignificant Is Significant

842) Through the years, I have realized that God loves to take the insignificant and make it significant. It might be in the tiny gift a child drops in the offering plate. It could be the elderly woman who spends much of her time praying or it could be those in every day “menial” jobs,
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Your Reflection

826) There was a peanut and party shop near my grandparent’s house that I loved to go and visit. In addition to all the snacks, they had live monkeys in there that you could watch while the fragrance of popcorn filled the air. Another thing I enjoyed were the circus mirrors there. My grandfather would
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