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Devotional Making Disciples Memoir

Stone hearts

Soul exhaustion sets in. Unexpected. 

Byproduct from observing those who scorn the cross. And reject the gospel.

Stone heart resistance catches my breath. 

So, I pray.

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Crossing Cultures Making Disciples Memoir

Sent ones

It hit me in a different way that day.

The gathering of family and friends to commission this latest group of sent ones. Newly trained. Now on their way. To places all over the globe.

It hit me when I saw the expressions. On parents’ faces. 

Pride. Joy. Grief. And for some—uncertainty. Perhaps, even anger. 

The time had come. For releasing their kids and grandkids. To travel across oceans and borders. Into a new and different life of serving in another culture. 

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Devotional Memoir

Higher

In my tropical 
childhood, 
I climbed 
the front-yard tree. 
Higher. 
For solitude. 
Rest. 
To simply 
be. 
Sitting 
on knobby 
branches 
amid green 
leaves, 
pink blossoms.
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