Walking in your purpose will require moving on from some people and places that in this season have you looking like a picture of catastrophe and discomfort. You must come to terms with the expense, time, and the loss of …
The hour was early; far before the rising of the sun. The whole house was drenched in a heavy slumbering silence. Only the methodical breath of my brother asleep on the other side of the room edged its way into …
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This article is an excerpt from the book, We’re Stronger than We Look: Insights and Encouragement for the Caregiver’s Journey. Jill and David Brown lived full and healthy lives until David took a violent fall off his bicycle and into …
This excerpt was taken from Two Hundred Tuesdays: What a Pearl Harbor Survivor Taught Me about Life, Love, and Faith by Dianne Derby. If you’d like to glimpse into the life of a committed disciplemaker, you will encouraged and strengthened …
There is something immediate, something startling in the effect of touch. Like the other senses, it brings us into contact with the world around us, makes us aware of the bounding lines of the space of our lives. And yet, …
This article is an excerpt from the book, We’re Stronger than We Look: Insights and Encouragement for the Caregiver’s Journey. Jill and David Brown lived full and healthy lives until David took a violent fall off his bicycle and into …
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Jim Downing, the Pearl Harbor survivor who I had been meeting with every Tuesday for a few years, and I were talking about how he first came to faith in Jesus. “Virgil Hook is the one who helped bring me …
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This article is an excerpt from the book, We’re Stronger than We Look: Insights and Encouragement for the Caregiver’s Journey. Jill and David Brown lived full and healthy lives until David took a violent fall off his bicycle and into …
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Music is a connective tissue between our earthly, tangible lives and the intangible movement of the divine in and through all things. As the late poet and philosopher John O’Donohue said: There is something deeper still in the way that …
This article is an excerpt from the book, We’re Stronger than We Look: Insights and Encouragement for the Caregiver’s Journey. Jill and David Brown lived full and healthy lives until David took a violent fall off his bicycle and into …
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