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The Peace We Sing at Christmas
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Peace. Whether as a sentiment in a card or sung at the mall, it adorns the season — like so many other ornaments of the holidays. I don’t really think much about “why” this is, as Christmas surrounds me. I sure have long enough to ponder things like peace, since the store decorations have been …
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Ordinary Thanksgiving in Ordinary Life
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It is time to be thankful, not just because it is Thanksgiving week, the leaves are changing and Fall is a wonderful season. But the theme of thanksgiving seems to be continually popping up, along with the encouragement for practicing thanksgiving in many forms. Whether it is counting in a thousand ways, 40 days, or finding ways of generously being …
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Growing my Heart and Taking Steps of Faith to Make Christ known
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Do you remember the scene in “How the Grinch Stole Christmas,” the one in which his tiny heart begins to grow? He expected whining, crying, and complaining when Whoville woke up to the absence of Christmas gifts, but instead the Grinch heard singing. They had no presents (the Grinch had made sure of that), but …