Tag: heaven
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Celebrating a Life: Kaye’s Legacy in Our Community
The Lord knows the days of the upright; and their inheritance shall be forever. Psalm 37:18 NKJV A hundred or so members of our little farming community came together recently to celebrate the well-lived life of one very special lady named Kaye. Kaye was not only much loved, but she was an influential Christian woman…
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A Stump and a Seesaw
There’s an overlooked courtyard, just off the dining room of the nursing home where my wife and I sing. It’s been there all along, these past nine years, but I found it for the first time today. When we arrived, several residents were enjoying mobility exercises with the activity director. So, after setting up, I…
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Missing the Farm
Now we know that if the earthly tent we live in is destroyed, we have a building from God, an eternal house in heaven, not built by human hands. 2 Corinthians 5:1 (NIV) Mrs. Alma looked out the window, kneading the afghan in her lap. Turning back to me, she said, wistfully, “I like it…
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Oh Happy Day!
Twice in one day this week, I saw the same message: “It is what it is.” The first time was on a bumper sticker–coming through the morning car line at my school. Then, it was after dismissal –on a custodian’s tee shirt. Now, I’m the kind of guy who goes fishing for a life application…
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Heaven. This Isn’t It!
The year I turned fifteen, my dad took my older brother and me on a fishing trip to Mexico. But first we had to get to my uncle Bill’s house in Alamogordo, New Mexico. From there we would fly south of the border in his Cessna. I was reared on the Great Plains of the…
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Come On Up To the House
“Comfort my people,” says our God. “Comfort Them!” Isaiah 40:1 (GNT) In my rural community, I used to haul hay as a teenager. It was hard, hot work loading bale after heavy bale onto a truck and then stacking it in an equally stifling barn. On such days it was always a relief to see…
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