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Working Toward Freedom

I watched wide-eyed as our nation raged. Our rulers prepared for battle, plotted and cried out, "Let's free ourselves from this slavery!" Who did they cry out against? What was the slavery? According to Psalm 2, none other than the Lord God because they didn't want him telling them what  to do. Neither did their citizens. If a situation called for a little lying or stealing or cheating, why not? If they felt like using… Read More

Happy Father’s Day, Dad

In the late 1800's, the life of a young Civil War veteran's wife faded as she gave birth to their sixth child. Widower William Smart raised his daughter and five sons on the family farm in the state of Washington with such devotion that, as an adult, his daughter began a campaign to honor all fathers. In 1906, Sonora Louise Smart Dodd, then living in Spokane, discussed the idea with her pastor. She envisioned a… Read More

Love and Faithfulness at Work

Chee! Chee! A piercing distress call pulled my attention to an area of the parking lot where three little girls giggled. Their father drew them away from the mother bird. As others walked by her nest, the beautiful killdeer spread her wings and puffed up her feathers in a protective bluff. A few feet away, I looked among the rounded decorative stones where she stood guard. Sure enough. She had laid a clutch of eggs,… Read More

Never Too Late

Carol shut the door to her art studio. "Lord, I'm getting nowhere, and I'm sick of trying. I quit!" It wasn't as if she hadn't tried. For years, for Pete's sake! Okay, so she had procrastinated some. Vegging out in front of the TV and chatting with friends rather than wrestling to master that illusive painting technique. She sighed and leaned against the wooden door. Truthfully, she hadn't worked on her paintings anywhere near as… Read More