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Christmas Devotional Memoir

Delay

Delay. Airport overflowing. Passengers waiting. Watching. Anxious. Resigned. Complaining. Shouting. 

Weary mom holds one child and corrals the others. Trying to get home before snow.

Couple returning from vacation. Using up all that relaxation in one day of flight cancellations. 

I sit beside a man from Newark. Started his day long before dawn. Now it’s late afternoon and his flight diverted from Pensacola to this small airport in Alabama. 

He’s trying to find another way to reach his destination. But rental cars are long gone. 

Delay. Image by Zichao Zhang on Unsplash.
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Devotional Making Disciples Memoir

His Word

“Blessed is the man….” Our class repeats Psalm 1. Rhythmically. As directed by the professor. 

And years later the words return to my mind. With a beat. 

His Word.

Faithful and true.

Bearing fruit. Image by Maksim Zaviktorin on Unsplash.
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Devotional Making Disciples

Visual

Clear visual. The prophet lying on his left side for 390 days. Then turning over to lie on his right side for 40 days.

Communicating to Israel and Judah the weight of their sin. And dire consequences. Great discomfort in the coming siege.

By way of illustration.

Visual. Image by Max Saeling on Unsplash.