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January 22, 2012

My Redeemer Lives and Gives Me Rest

The year 2012 has not started out that great for me the health arena. I’ve been feeling terrible and still don’t know for sure what the problem is, though hopefully will find out later this week. Yesterday in particular I was feeling exhausted and weary,...

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January 17, 2012

In Need of a Mediator

I’ve just gotten to Job on my Bible reading schedule. The schedule I’m using places Job between Genesis 22 and 23, which is apparently where it is believed it occurred chronologically. I still remember the first time I tried to read Job. I was 23,...

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December 28, 2011

Manna for the Day

When the Israelites were wandering in the wilderness for 40 years, God provided them with food called manna. The word “manna” is a Hebrew word that literally means “what is it?” The Israelites didn’t know what it was, but they discovered that it was nutritious...

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December 27, 2011

Perseverance – My Tuesday Three

The apostle Paul wrote a lot about perseverance. Here is the quote I promised I would share today: Pressing on Toward the Goal Not that I have already obtained all this, or have already been made perfect, but I press on to take hold of...

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November 14, 2011

More Hope for the Hopeless

Last week I devoted my Music Monday post to a playlist of “music that is particularly helpful to people who are in less than hopeful situations.” I ran out of time to create a complete list of my favorite encouraging songs, so today I’m posting...

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November 13, 2011

Psalm 55 – O God, Listen to My Prayer

Yesterday I was thinking about what Psalm to post for today. I went to Biblegateway.com to read a few before deciding. It was already open in a tab of my browser because I had used it to copy and paste the Isaiah 55 passage that...

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November 10, 2011

Freedom in Christ – A Poem

Two months ago I wrote my first pantoum poem. I learned about how to write this form of poem at the dVerse Poets Pub. The other morning I was thinking about what to write for my Thankful Thursday poem for this week and this wonderful...

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November 3, 2011

Overcoming – A Poem

Synonyms are words that have the same or similar meaning as another word. Antonyms are words that are opposite in meaning to other words. I am thankful for antonyms because they are proof that in spite of all the evil in the world there is...

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