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My Anchor Holds by Jessica Renshaw (Part 5)

On that cold night in Hiroshima my anguish and despair turned into rage. I shook my fist at the empty sky. “You had your chance!” I shouted. As the author-philosopher C.S. Lewis put it, “I was at this time living, … Continue reading

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Joy: You get what you pray for

(I accidentally posted this a few weeks ago, before I intended to. Pretend it’s new.) “When my father and mother forsake me, then the LORD will take me up.” Psalm 27:10 I was 19, newly born again. I loved my … Continue reading

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“They have a college on Maui?!!!”

http://titaworks.biz/lifestyles-of-the-poor-and-insignificant/maunaolu-college I just heard from a classmate I lost touch with 58 years ago.  News of Kilauea’s eruptions made Nini Fitzpatrick think of the year she and I spent at a junior college on Maui and she tracked me down.  … Continue reading

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You get what you pray for

“When my father and mother forsake me, then the LORD will take me up.” Psalm 27:10 I was 19, newly born again. I loved my family so much, I immediately wrote to share the good news with them. I copied … Continue reading

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