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Wheat Pennies
When I was 6 years old, I got good and mad at my mother. I don’t even remember what it was about, but I kept quiet ― either that or she was intransigent on the issue. I don’t remember, but … Continue reading
Posted in Amends
Tagged amends, anger, caring, contrition, debts, family, forgiveness, relationships, restitution, snail mail, sorrow, wheat pennies
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Trust
I just finished watching The Impossible, a new film in which a youngish couple played by Ewan McGregor and Naomi Watts bring their three boys to Indonesia and settle into a coastal bungalow just in time for the 2004 tsunami―the … Continue reading
Posted in Acceptance, Trust
Tagged adversity, calamity, cataclysm, confidence, death, disaster, good, hardship, joy, life, loss, love, pain, peace, redemption, rescue, salvation, sorrow, sovereignty, triumph, trust, victory
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The Paradox of Mercy
“For God has bound all men over to disobedience so that he may have mercy on them all.” (Romans 11:32, NIV) Really? That has to be a typo or a misquote or something. No, it’s right there; I just read it … Continue reading
Posted in Grace
Tagged election, forgiveness, grace, guilt, mercy, punishment, sin, sorrow
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