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The place God calls you to is the place where your deep gladnessand the world’s deep hunger meet.— Frederick Buechner Last fall, my mother-in-law called me into her kitchen to show me that she’d found the answer she’d been searching for. She spread out the newspaper on her kitchen table, and pointed to photographs of […]
He calls it The Ten Dollar Challenge — a way to spread joy one $10-bill at a time. This Christmas season, my friend, Billy Coffey, invited us to carry around $10 and look for an opportunity. What hope might we bring bring to the hopeless? What joy might we bring in this season that — […]
Love thy neighbor, Jesus says. And I think that I do.But in this racing world, have I slowed enough to really love my neighbor? Each day, I watch real-life neighbors zip down the highway in a blur of steel beyond the alfalfa field. I wave to them, and consider my effortless gesture an act of […]
UPDATE ON October 22, 2009 Friends, for the most recent updates and for links to Mary’s obituaries, click here or click on the HOME page button at the top lefthand corner of the blog. — Jennifer UPDATE ON October 21, 2009Mary Anaya –Christ-follower and mother of 11 — passed away today. Her faith has become […]
Pull up a chair, friend. Gather ’round this table, where guests “get down” to Truth. I realized this morning that this week marks my one-year blogging anniversary. This table has never been empty, for a place has always been set here for Jesus. But there were times when it was just the two of us: […]