Mar
28
Several years before I was born, an eighteen-year-old girl was visited in the hospital by an old friend from high school friend named Dody. In the time that had passed since they had seen each other, Dody had changed, and Joanne couldn’t help but notice. “Dody, your face looks so…so pretty.” “That’s because Jesus has …
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Dec
31
I’m not eavesdropping, but I can’t help overhearing snippets of the conversations walking past me. I’m on a layover and am sitting in a row of chairs along a long hallway between terminals in the airport. There’s a steady stream of people walking by, but they mostly come just a few at a time, so …
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Nov
13
Did you ever notice that the most commonly correct answer in Sunday school is “Pray and read your Bible”? I first picked up on this in second grade. “How can we obey God?” the teacher would ask. Hands would shoot up. But as soon as the first person answered, “Pray and read your Bible,” the …
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Jul
26
Two weeks ago, I was sitting on the second to the last row of a little girls’ class, helping with childcare during Spiritual Leadership Conference. We had already played games and spent some time on the playground, and now we were listening to a lesson. (As a side note, one of the great blessings to …
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Jun
20
We didn’t eat sugar in our house growing up. But we did eat cloves. Okay—we didn’t eat cloves; I did. It all started when my mom gave them to us in church (instead of breath mints) to help us stay awake. She recommended that we suck on them, which my sisters did; but I found …
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May
09
“There is a reward for whoever finds Dad’s keys first.” These words, occasionally spoken by my mom when I was growing up, were like music to my ears! You might think that I would have looked just as diligently for the keys before the reward was offered—when I first heard they were missing. And, truthfully, …
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