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Tag: Perseverance

Devotional Memoir

Pain

The problem of pain sits in shadows. Valleys. Sometimes hidden.

Walking by faith, we navigate broken streets. And journey with hurting people.

Face to face with a biblical reality.

“For we know that the whole creation groans…” (Romans 8:22 NASB).

Path of pain. Image by Peter Forster on Unsplash.

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Crossing Cultures Devotional Memoir

Not so brave

People look at where you’ve been. Or where you’re headed. Noticing which trials have whipped or trudged through your life.

And then decide you’ve got unusual fortitude. Courage. Perseverance to endure.

“You’re so brave. I could never do that.”

I’m not so brave.

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Crossing Cultures Devotional

Entering the land

“What’s it like entering a new country and culture. How do you prepare?” Her questions take me back to the early days. Of crossing borders and dwelling in the land.

My mother’s passport in the 1960s. Vintage. It includes my photograph and lists me as an accompanying minor.

My reading the next day is Joshua 1-4. God’s people are leaving their wilderness wanderings and entering the promised land.

The context and purpose differs, but in the preparation of God’s people, I find strategic practices. For entering the land.

Whether that land is across the river, across the street or across the ocean.

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