Tag: Hope
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When Little is Much
Better a little with the fear of the Lord than great wealth with turmoil. Proverbs 15:16 (NIV) I had a friend in grad school who came from a rather wealthy family. I’ll call him Howard, because, to middle class me, he may as well have been Howard Hughes. His parents had a cabin in the…
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Look for the Hope
A friend from my church choir, whose whole family recently recovered from COVID-19, shared a testimony during our praise and prayer time after rehearsal: “Look for the hope.” I immediately thought of King David’s words in Psalm 112:4 “Even in the darkness light dawns for the upright, for the gracious and compassionate and righteous man.”…
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A Different Kind of Hero
When his younger brother went off to war in 1942, my grandfather, a bookkeeper, became a reluctant cotton farmer. Their dad was unable to manage 160 acres by himself. So Raymond, my grandfather, came back home to help. Trading ledger books for leather gloves doesn’t sound like that big of a deal. But PaPaw, as…
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God’s Love is Stronger
As he drove up the ramp to a tall bridge, Dave was at an all-time low. Hopelessness and despair filled the car like a gloomy haze, fogging over his brittle mind. * “Why don’t you just pull over at the top and jump?” said an unreliable voice in his head. Dave turned on the radio…
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Repurposed
The road back from life trauma isn’t always rosy.
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Why Do We Run?
It was to be a stress-reducing two mile run after school. Taking off from the flag pole, I planned an out and back route designed to avoid clusters of children walking home. But as I rounded a corner, there they were: four kids spaced out on the sidewalk like cones on an obstacle course. “Hey!…
Davids Daily Dose 