Posts from December 2021

Posts from December 2021

Sound Words

SOUND WORDS, DEC 26, 2021

God’s Wondrous Ways It has taken decades to collect the random assortment of magnets which now adorn our “fridge-for-later”. Our oldest daughter Jessica was the first in our home to turn this ordinary appliance into an art gallery. She was also the one to coin the name which we still affectionately use. Katrina, Emma and Logan contributed in turn to make the kitchen a colorful display of creativity. As the children grew so did their skills. No work by any…
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SOUND WORDS, DEC 19, 2021

WILL What will tomorrow bring? The truth is that none of us know. We have an idea what we wish for tomorrow to be. We make plans and act on them like they are set in stone. Sometimes we are devastated when things do not go as we planned. James warned Christians about the uncertainty of the future. “Come now, you who say, “Today or tomorrow we will go to such and such a city, spend a year there, buy…
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SOUND WORDS, DEC 12, 2021

REGRET Grief covers a wide range of emotion. At one extreme is a debilitating sadness. This is usually the result of great personal loss. At the other extreme is mild aggravation. Have you as a parent ever said, “My children have given me nothing but grief today”? As an emotion grief is usually a response to something unexpected, something outside of our control. Sometimes grief is the direct result of our own actions. The consequence of sin is always loss.…
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SOUND WORDS, DEC 5, 2021

WISDOM Benjamin Franklin said, “After crosses and losses men grow humbler and wiser.” If only there were a way to obtain wisdom without suffering. If only there were a way to learn humility without falling. What if we could know the right course without taking the wrong one first? What if we could always say the right thing instead of causing others pain? How different would our lives be? How different would the lives of our family, friends and neighbors…
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