Relief!

1389) I’m not sure if it’s because of my age or my health, but it seems it’s awful easy to tear up these days. It’s as if a wave of emotion sweeps over me and I react. Honestly, I find it embarrassing because of the reactions of those I’m around. It isn’t that they make
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Enough is Enough

1388) A term that has been thrown around in the last few years is “retail therapy.” It aptly describes the fact that many feel better simply in buying things. I must admit, it’s nice to shop once-in-a-while and, yes, it perks me up. This therapy becomes a problem when someone mistakes a temporary rush of
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Accompanied

1387) One of the most valuable gifts you can give someone is the gift of being with them in their time of sorrow. When someone is suffering, you cannot stop it, you cannot change it, but you can be there for someone, literally. Sitting with someone in their pain, saying nothing, is a tremendous gift
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Reservations Needed

1386) I think it’s interesting that when a wide majority of people find themselves in horrible situations, they cry out to God a one-word prayer: “Why?” Some of these people may have never spoken to God before, or some may even have claimed to reject God. There’s just something God has put within us; a
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Glory Days

1385) What things motivate you? If someone were to ask me this, I’d have to ask them in what area of life are you referring to? What motivates me in my writing is the joy and awe that stirs within when God guides my fingers on my keyboard and then I see what God has
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Priceless Gifts

1384) In my writing class, I give my students daily journal prompts. They can be things like, you find an unexpected shoebox in your closet, what does it contain? To something as simple as, if you had any three gifts, what would they be? The students’ responses to these vary a lot and it’s fun
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Saturated

1383) I have read several accounts of people who claim to have died and gone to heaven and then, for one reason or another, have come back to earth on the other end of a near-death experience. When I have read these stories, I try to leave my judgment aside and “listen” to what the
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Controlled

1382) One thing I really don’t like is when I sense someone is trying to control me. Through conversation, manipulation or attitude, when I feel someone is trying to force me into thinking, feeling or moving in a particular way, I dig my heals in. I don’t think I’m the only one who feels this
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Beyond Description

1381) If you were asked to describe God, what words would you use? I would come up with things like, God is honest, he is just, he is righteous and other such things. These are true, but David seems to have a deeper understanding of God than I do. His words are more pointed and
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The Value of Honesty

1380) I am amazed as I read through Scripture how many times I see people hiding from God. Adam and Eve and Jonah are perfect examples. My thinking is, Why do you think hiding from an omniscient God will work? After all, David himself said in Psalm 139:7-10 there is nowhere you can go from
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