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Backyard Sanctuary
Some mornings, I walk out back to water the garden and the flowers and I just have to stop because the mornings are lovely and quiet, and only the flowers are singing, and there’s sort of a hidden...
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The Generosity of God
When I set out the sprinkler in the morning to water the herbs, peppers, okra, and the dying tomatoes that are valiantly giving us their all, the flowers dance and beg for my attention. Sometimes the...
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My Biblical Heroes: Agur
I have just enough wits to know that I am stupid, which is sort of cruel on Your part, when I dwell on it. I’m not a fierce warrior or a romantic poet or a powerful prince. I am not wise or learned. I...
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How to Find God: A Round-About Sort of Map, or a Recipe For Getting Lost
First, sit down on the floor with an expert or two under the age of seven. Gather some Legos, chocolate syrup, a bed sheet, paste, a harmonica, dry pasta, sand, laughter, mud, paint, puddles, old...
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Awe, and Stillness
Stand in awe and sin not: commune with your own heart upon your bed, and be still. ~Psalm 4:4 Be still and know that I am God: I will be exalted among the heathen, I will be exalted in the earth....
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Either / Or
“Either God is good, or He isn’t”. Soft, safe, tamed. (In the Language of Flowers, the red rose means “I love you.” Without thorns, it means the giver has loved the recipient since they first saw...
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Good for Nothing
“Santa’s watching: you’d better be good.” I hate that sentence. Using the idea that the reason to be good is because you will be rewarded for your behavior destroys the purity of goodness. To motivate...
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New Year’s Resolutions
“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.” -Oscar Wilde 1. Live. “There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as...
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The Storm God’s Mercies
Houston springtime’s are majestic. When the sky fills with thunderheads and the winds begin howling, everything stops in reverent terror: the Storm God is angry. Lightnings and thunders rage and roar,...
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Rodalena Reviews: Go Set a Watchman
(Note to reader: the following review includes vague spoilers; the linked articles give specific ones.) Even a piece of fiction can break your heart. Reading Harper Lee’s Go Set a Watchman is like...
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