Hearing

2502) It amazes me to read about the miracles of Jesus. I try to stand in the place of the one receiving the miracle and wonder what it would have felt like. The miracle I think of today is found in Matthew 8:5-13. Here, a centurion comes to Jesus about healing his servant who is
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Building

2501) What is your home like? Not the physical home, but the atmosphere. Some like being home because it is a place of peace, solace, and safety. If home is not like this, it’s easy to assume you have no control over it. No control might be true for small children, but Proverbs 24:3-4 tells
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Holy

2500) When I was in high school, if a couple were dating, the girl would often wear the boy’s class ring on her finger. This was a statement that she “belonged” to another. For many girls, it felt so good to be wanted and “belonging” to someone else. This was a public statement. In 1
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Flexible Peace

2499) For many reasons, I am a planner. This is a helpful thing while being self-employed. I have a schedule; I stick to it. Routines are my calm place. However, life rarely runs as planned. Routines get interrupted. Our bodies get sick and more. When I read Hebrews 12:14, it reminds me that striving for
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I’m Telling

2498) If you grew up around younger siblings or cousins, you probably heard, I’m telling hundreds of times. After a while, you may have looked over your shoulder and parroted, go ahead. I dare you. When I think of the words, I’m telling, I think of Matthew 18:15-17. Here we are admonished that if we
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The Lions in my Life

2497) I have never been to a circus, though I have seen enough of them on television to picture what happens in a show. One of the things I think I would have been scared to see as a child is a lion in the same cage as a person, and the lion is riled
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Divided Loyalty

2496) In spite of their age, children are smart. Most realize that manipulating the right person can bring a better outcome. For example, some of us knew which parent to ask for permission to do something and which one would say no. We’d, of course, go to the one most likely to give us what
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Valuables

2495) One of the things I collected as a child was pretty rocks. I had in my old cigar box a collection of my favorite ones. As I would look through my rocks, I mistakenly thought I had some valuable ones, yet in reality, they held no monetary value. There was intrinsic value in them;
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Where is the Love

2494) It’s always interesting to me to observe some of my young scholars fall in love. They usually swing all the way toward bliss, feeling as if they’re walking on air, and then, almost as quickly, swing the opposite way in their feelings. As adults, we learn, hopefully, that yes, love carries strong feelings, but
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Pain Spotlights Beauty

2493) As a creator and writer, I examine things a little differently than others. I have noticed that within the hurricane of pain, there is the eye of beauty. I have noticed those who have survived rape, infidelity, cruelty and more, who have been able to turn their pain into a blueprint of how they
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