“So now I am giving you a new commandment: Love each other. Just as I have loved you, you should love each other.” —John 13:34
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The Picture
It starkly and vividly grabbed me by the emotional collar and yanked me headlong into a whirlpool of sorrow and despondency. It changed me in …
Read More »Nightly Ritual
Night after night, consistently, unfailingly…I’ve watched her for years, and her routine ritual is entirely predictable at bedtime. Slowly, painstakingly, she limps to the doorway …
Read More »Who You Telling?!
Colloquialisms, expressions, and idioms have a special place in my heart. I find them very interesting because they seem to give a little insight into …
Read More »Concern for Others
A few years ago a world-wide media event served as an illustration of how our society does not want us to get along with each …
Read More »Washing Her Feet
As a shy and insecure 13-year-old, I had a thousand different thoughts when my youth pastor asked me if I wanted to go on an …
Read More »Humble and Kind
Eclipse 6’s first single shot music video! “We’d been wanting to do a song from the country music genre for a while but wanted to …
Read More »God as a Father
It was shocking news. A three-year-old girl, nick-named “Pumpkin,” was abandoned by her father at Southern Cross railway station in Melbourne, Australia September 2008. They …
Read More »A Spoonful of Kindness
Snowflakes drifted onto the windshield as the temperature dipped along with the sun. I drug my weak body into the seat, using every ounce of …
Read More »What I Deserve
“If God gave me everything I deserve, I’d have nothing left but bruises.” Two words in this quote make me really uncomfortable. “Deserve” and “Bruises.” …
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