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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. 

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Christmas Devotional Making Disciples

Something new

Something new. Blank page of another year. Month. Day. 

Unwritten. Unspoken. Unknown by me.

At the open door sits fresh, white snow as far as the eye can see. Waiting for the first footprint.

Looks like hope.

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Devotional Making Disciples

Make every effort

“Make every effort.” Peter repeats the phrase in his second letter.  Several times.

And in the conclusion, he combines it with an unexpected word. Counter-intuitive.  

“Therefore, dear friends, while you wait for these things, make every effort to be found without spot or blemish in His sight, at peace.” 2 Peter 3:14

Make every effort. While you wait.

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