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I give speeches around the country.... Life is precious, I tell them. It can be gone in an instant.
—Brian Clark, 9/11 survivor
—Brian Clark, 9/11 survivor
Fear will always ...
Fear will always knock on your door. Just don't invite it in for dinner. And for heaven's sake, don't offer it a bed for the night.
—Max Lucado, Imagine Your Life Without Fear
Devotion in Overwhelming Times
An email came in today from a friend who may have to have her son committed. That was an hour after I ran into a friend whose family is facing eviction.
It was two days after someone else's son died, four days after a woman from my mom's group rushed her husband to the ER in dire condition.
There are times when my prayer list spins out of control, when people in need multiply like the brooms in Fantasia. Seeing so many people in crisis gets overwhelming. My heart gapes. My toes begin to dip into the slough of despond.
And then I think, Stop. Whatever it is that God wants of me, he's not asking me to despair.
I take a deep breath. I consci
When it seems like things won't ever get better...
May you remember that though the roads we take can sometimes be difficult, those are often the ones that lead to the most beautiful views.
Doris Dillon, Randleman, North Carolina
Was It a Mirage from Home? Or an Angel?
In the middle of a dense jungle, help from familiar but mysterious strangers helps bring a soldier closer to home.
By Royce King, Oelwein, Iowa
The only place I'd seen military aircrafts, tanks or jungles in my small hometown of Oelwein, Iowa, was at the local movie theater. Iowa was more a place for ice cream vendors in the summer, hay rides in the fall and Salvation Army bell-ringers at Christmas.
But as I headed over to the mess hut for my morning coffee that day in 1945, I barely noticed the jungle. My months in Burma airlifting supplies through China to the other Allied forces had gotten me used to airplanes and tropical birds. But st
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