Tag: devotional
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Too Many Coats
When the weather starts to turn cold it happens –the students at my elementary school start losing their coats and hoodies. Most of the time it’s innocent enough; kids get too hot on the playground, or in the gym, and the coats come off. Sometimes they remember to pick them up. Sometimes they don’t. The…
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What Was That Again?
Have you ever misread the message on a tee shirt or bumper sticker? The fancy name for this is malapropism–when an incorrect word is used in a sentence that sounds like the correct word but means something completely different. A couple of months back, tensions boiled over at my workplace. I will shamelessly put a…
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Lord, Let Your Light Shine!
Even a casual Christian glance at the state of our world today can cause despair. I find myself asking, along with King David, “When the foundations are being destroyed, what can the righteous do?” Psalm 11:3 (NIV) You can tell by my title where this is headed. The Psalmist answers his own question soon enough:…
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Please Read if You’re From Earth
A few weeks ago I shared in a post, Kid Shoes, how I love to joke with young children at my school. It’s fun, for instance, to ask four-year- olds if I can try on their shoes. The look on little faces, as they consider this request, is priceless. However, if I ask an eight-year-old…
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Kid Shoes
The pre-k and kindergarten students (at school) are my favorites. These little guys are such literal thinkers; and whatever they’re thinking is right on the surface. They also say the most amazing things! One of my favorite pass times is to joke and laugh with my young friends. I playfully test their powers of deductive…
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Too Many Snaps
A few Saturdays ago, Nancy and I visited a local farmer’s market. There wasn’t much produce to speak of, this late in the year, but I was delighted to find someone shelling black-eyed peas! Instantly, I went back to my boyhood, sitting on a farmhouse porch with my grandmother. We both had a bucket of…
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