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Follow the Trail: Don’t Mess with the Road Map
It was a snowy afternoon in New York City, and once again I was almost late for a meeting at Marble Collegiate Church; it didn’t help that I was scheduled to chair. So, of course, I took a taxi. Destination reached, I paid the driver and headed into the meeting. All went well, until I […]
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The Path We Tread
It takes you somewhere or nowhere. It leaves shadows in front of you. It leaves shadows behind you. It points directions that you must take. Watch it take shape, Watch it change colors, Watch it take strides. You are confused, You are frustrated, You are torn. You ask for it to be straight, direct and […]
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The Small Gestures that can Reset our Souls…
Late in the afternoon last Saturday, I was attempting to put lights and garland on my fireplace mantel like I do each year. Nothing was staying in place and two strings of lights ended up falling down and breaking. I had been feeling overwhelmed with the coming of the holidays and the pressure to get […]
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God’s Glorious Contrary Ways
Who’d ever put treasure in frail jars of clay? Come to us in our failure not strength, Choose the weakest and least, The discarded, not kings, Recruit from the gutter for His family? Who’d take objects of scorn: Vile cross, crown of thorns, And die to slay death, Conquer hell, sin and grave? Who’d pick […]
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Jesus Walked this Lonesome Valley
Jesus walked this lonesome valley. He had to walk it by Himself; O, nobody else could walk it for Him, He had to walk it by Himself. We must walk this lonesome valley, We have to walk it by ourselves; O, nobody else can walk it for us, We have to walk it by ourselves. […]
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Rainbow…
12 God said, “This is the sign of the covenant that I make between me and you and every living creature that is with you, for all future generations: 13 I have set my bow in the clouds, and it shall be a sign of the covenant between me and the earth. 14 When I bring clouds over the earth […]