The trip back to the garden of delight is always a trip back to sanctuary.
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don’t toy with this girl
January 7, 2012
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I wouldn’t call her a survivor. I would call her an overcomer, which is what God would call her too
Read more to Africa with love
August 5, 2011
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The problems to solve are many, and they don’t all require us to move to Africa. But engaging them is how we grow, testing our skill and knowledge against something that matters.
Read more celebrating a son-in-law
July 8, 2011
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My son-in-law and I disagree on some very important things, although I have forgiven him for breaking my toe, dropping my daughter’s hope chest on it. But I have learned to love him.
Read more a daughter-in-law of delights
May 4, 2011
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Ann is ready and able for new challenges. Including a move. And another year.
Read morebe that guy
March 2, 2011
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Make time for others, especially young men who are trying to figure things out. Remember when your Dad died and you had no one to call? Now you are that guy.
Read more so here’s to Katie
January 29, 2011
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Today I wish for you wisdom for and peace in each trial, because I’m sure we still have a few left. And I wish for you greater joy in knowing and doing the will of God, whose grace has sustained us all these years. And I wish you a happy birthday. And many more.
Read morethree birthday wishes for Christian
January 22, 2011
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Only now have I begun to fully trust the God of his fathers to draw my son close and lift him up and transform him daily. It was never my job to do those things, and it is every my joy when God does.
Read moreHappy birthday Katie
January 29, 2010
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The joys of heaven will surely compensate for the sorrows of earth. Hush, hush, my doubts! death is but a narrow stream, and thou shalt soon have forded it. Time, how short—eternity, how long! Death, how brief—immortality, how endless! Methinks I even now eat of Eshcol’s clusters, and sip of the well which is within [...]
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