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Susan Grant January 9, 2026

Flattery Will Get You?

2341) There’s a difference between encouraging and flattering. When we encourage, we are supporting someone. We hope to bring confidence and maybe hope. (Oxford Languages.) To flatter someone, we give insincere praise, usually to further one’s own interests. (Oxford Languages.) The word flatter in Hebrew is chalaq, which means to separate and divide. (biblehub.com) Flattering
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Susan Grant January 8, 2026

Price Tags

2340) As I grow older, I find myself thinking and doing things I promised myself when I was younger that I would never do. One of them is to compare how much things cost when I first started out as an adult to the cost of things now. In those first years, I really didn’t
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Susan Grant January 7, 2026

Death

2339) Death represents finality. It means a separation between humans and between humans and animals. Death has the ability to turn our lives upside down because when someone (or something) dies, we walk along in life without them, and this can cause an ache deep within the soul. When we, or someone we care about,
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Susan Grant January 6, 2026

Companion

2338) My little dog, Cayce, loves to walk. All I have to do is get my walking shoes out, and he goes crazy. It’s so nice to have a companion when I’m walking. My last dog’s health made it impossible for him to walk with me nine years out of the 11 that I had
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Susan Grant January 5, 2026

Intrinsic Value

2337) I once had a professor, Johnny Miller, who did a sermon on intrinsic value. He gave personal examples of this, and as best as my memory can recall, there were three. First, Johnny told of his young daughter, who got an ice cream cone. As she was eating it, the ice cream fell off
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Susan Grant January 4, 2026

Hope

Hope 2336) I hope I get the job. I hope the report from the doctor is good. I hope for some peace and quiet. All these things are reasonable wants, and when I read Psalm 130:7 that I must hope in the Lord. For with the Lord is steadfast love, and with him is plentiful
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Susan Grant January 3, 2026

It’s a Fight

2335) When I taught high school, I was thoroughly shaken each time I witnessed a fight between kids. I hated seeing them; it was often traumatic to me, especially when I knew the kids involved. Some fights were brutal. As I reflect on this, it occurs to me that I have always viewed fights–whether physical
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Susan Grant January 2, 2026

Encourage

2334) As I make stops in my community, I feel unsettled when I see signs posted that boldly state the company or place will not tolerate rudeness and bullying. My struggle is not in the fact these signs are there, of course; it’s because they are necessary. It seems our culture has defined itself by
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Susan Grant January 1, 2026

On Guard

2333) People who choose to be lifeguards have my respect. I don’t think I could spend hours watching for a disaster. To be ready at any moment, at any minute, at any second and then, when someone struggles in the water, to leap for action. When Paul tells us in Philippians 4:7 that God’s peace 
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Susan Grant December 31, 2025

Fear Not

2332) As we look toward a new year, sometimes fear has a way of creeping in. Who will leave me? Who will die? What hurts will be chiseled into my soul? Fear is an emotion that has a way of barging into our lives like a jolt of lightning. We don’t have much control over
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