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At Home in Heaven
Originally posted on Always Sick, Always Loved: On July 26th, 2017, my precious wife Margaret passed away at the age of 63. She had heroically battled the autoimmune disease sarcoidosis for almost thirty years, and despite decades of pain and disability, demonstrated a contagious joy throughout her lifetime. How was this joy possible, even when…
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The Choice
Sometimes God makes His path so clear, even when the path goes through rough terrains we would rather not travel. God was so kind to give me a vivid illustration of the results of the choices before me when I was in the midst of being diagnosed with chronic illnesses. My health began tanking in 2009…
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Embracing My Consistently Inconsistent Life
Chronic illness visited me and stayed after a fall in November 2009 that required ten stitches on my knee. When I went to my doctor two days later to have it checked, she started me on a different and stronger antibiotic due to inflammation and concern of a bone infection. After a single dose I…
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Capacity for God Enlarged by Suffering
“Suffering is seen as one of God’s means of enlarging the soul’s capacity for Himself, and sufferers are enjoined to seek God’s enabling that they may lose none of the present or future fullness that God would have them experience as a result…There is only one way in which a sufferer may come to realize…
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Our Life Stories are Written in Wisdom and Grace
A friend posted this Paul Tripp excerpt yesterday and it really made me stop and ponder. “Your story isn’t an autobiography. Your story is a biography of wisdom and grace written by another. Every turn He writes into your story is right. Every twist of the plot is for the best. Every new character or…
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New Year Musings of Fresh Snow
Today a friend mentioned we have a whole New Year ahead of us that is a clean slate. It is like a new snow before any footprints have made any paths. Today we have fresh snowfall in our area. While I ponder how each step I make in the snow permanently changes how it looks…
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Finding Purpose in Suffering – Part 2
“The very thing we are afraid of, our brokenness, is the door to our Father’s heart” – Paul Miller Suffering is painful and we often feel broken in the midst of it and wonder when it will ever end. Reminding ourselves of God’s divine purposes in suffering helps us endure and find hope. This blog…
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Finding Purpose in Suffering – Part 1
This blog post is my biggest take away from the women’s conference I attended in Colorado Springs last weekend where Nancy Guthrie was the speaker. I only was able to attend Saturday and each of those sessions were grounded in the Word of God and both convicted and encouraged. The last session “Trusting God with…
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God-Incidences
I love how God works!!!We have been looking on Craigslist for a drop leaf table to have in our living room to put at the end of our dining table for enjoying meals with our life group and others God brings across our path. Yesterday we found one at the home of sweet young couple…
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Solace Emmanuel
Early in August we got the joyful news our daughter was expecting our sixth grandchild. We were rejoicing and looking forward to a March trip to help out after baby arrived. Friday August 12. Our daughter went in for a twelve week checkup at her midwife and no heart beat was found. were ordered and…
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