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Devotional Making Disciples

Unfolding year

Unfolding year before us. Already scheduled with best-laid plans that can so quickly come apart. Scatter. 

The unexpected changes calendars. Disrupts orderly lives. Next steps. 

A look back at the past year is case-in-point.

Unfolding year. Image by Behnam Norouzi on Unsplash.
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Crossing Cultures Making Disciples

City

“Afflicted city, lashed by storms and not comforted….”

He will build you a strong and beautiful foundation. Sapphires. And your wall? Precious stones. (Isaiah 54:11-12)

Then, that word mothers hear. And sigh in relief.

“All your children shall be taught by the Lord, 

and great shall be the peace of your children.” (Isaiah 54:13)

Hope. For the city of Zion.

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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.
Higher. Image by Annie Spratt on Unsplash.
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