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How Not To Waste A Bad Thing

I hear their voices still ringing in my ears: “Don’t waste it.” That it can represent anything good; like, food, money, health . . . time...

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Learning to Walk

I remember what it was like trying to teach my children how to walk. I’d ease them up onto wobbly legs—gently holding and guiding them al...

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When things set to spinning and all you want to do is jump

I learned to drive in Michigan—which means I learned how to drive in the snow. I also learned what it means to lose control of the car on...

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When Being Stuck Doesn’t Seem So Temporary

Everybody I know feels stuck. Life seems to be on hold. We can’t move forward. And we can’t go back. We tarry here in the in-between. Wai...

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What if we dropped the keys?

I’ve been doing a lot more walking these days. I think that’s the case for many of us. It’s one of the few places we can go. I headed out...

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Surrounded in Isolation

In these days of cancellations and unfamiliar isolation, we find it necessary to look for ways to battle the real enemies of disappointme...

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How What is to Come is a Blessing Now

Job, a suffering servant of God, in the depths of anguish of flesh, mind and spirit, proclaimed: “And after my skin has been destroyed, y...

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An Untossable Faith

I hadn’t been to the beach in years. Until, at long last, we took our first college tour. We were so close—we just had to make the detour...

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Underestimating God

Realization pierced the thick fog—permitting light to stream and flood. This realization came about by asking myself one simple question,...

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Car parts and faith and what one has to do with the other

Headlights—they come in varying degrees of brightness and hues these days. Whether they’re coming at you dead-on or glaring from the rear...

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Gift of Faith—The Backstory

There was a time nothing seemed true, all was shifting shadows. I got caught up in the chaotic world, spinning nonsensically out of contr...

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A God You Can Trust—Without Question

My phone was clipped to my hip pocket and my earbuds were streaming. I was listening to a favorite podcast during my morning prep routine...

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The Undeniable Cost of Faithfulness—A Lesson from the Prophet Jeremiah

It pricks your heart when you realize the depth of suffering the Lord’s servants endured. And yet, they remained faithful to delivering H...

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Questions for Life

There are other weighty questions we should ask ourselves at certain, pivotal junctures in life.

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Living life to the pulse of faith

This ever-changing life is lived in cycles: of want and plenty, ease and trial, celebration and mourning. With its ups and downs, peaks a...

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A shattering undone

They shattered to bits. And my heart sank. After the shock wore off, I stooped down to pick up the pieces scattered far and wide. I tried...

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When your day gets altered

Life has a way of altering a day. BUT . . . As God covered the deep Creation waters, so too He covers the space you occupy. He is the God...

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Try not to catch what others are throwing at you

“Piracy is not a victimless crime,” he joshed. “Yeah, I recently read that somewhere,” I lobbed back. This light-hearted banter was pitch...

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A Psalmistic Life

Life lessons—they’re those things learned from experience. The psalmists shared from their experience many valuable lessons for doing lif...

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It’s all about a steady pace

I passed her in the hall during her morning walk. She was moving a bit slower than usual, though, so I paused to check on her. “I’m pacin...

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Debbra Stephens