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A Life of Gratefulness
The day I felt so ill that I forced myself to vomit to be able to breathe and relieve me of dizziness, gratefulness triumphed once again. The episode was scary just like the others, but this one made...
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Be Strong and Courageous
One day last week after a long suffering bout where I had felt like I was dangling over a deep canyon and just the tiniest error on my part or a soft whiff of wind would send me plunging into the deep...
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“How Great Thou Art” {A Little Testimony}
Like any other testimony of God’s wonders and grace, whether a major one or of the everyday kind, this story began at the deepest end of human emotions: weariness, anger, resentment, lostness,...
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Yearning
Though it hurts, yearning is good for my heart, that yearning for the Lord Jesus Christ. Do you know that kind of deep yearning, one that is borne out of desperation? That yearning that I am sure the...
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On Sacrifice {A Family Tale}
The daddy leaves for church on a Sunday morning, alone this time because the two kids, who sing in different choirs, Children’s and Youth, are both sick, but not after cooking food, chicken adobo for...
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To Be God’s Own
Even as I cling to this, that to be wholly God’s is the whole meaning and purpose of life, I still intentionally pursue it with a single-minded determination through the moments of everyday. I mean, it...
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I Wish I Could Tell You
I balance my 9″ x 12″ Saunders Waterford watercolor paper block on my lap (I paint in bed now). I reach out for the masking tape, my eyes and back drooping, heavy from hurt, sadness, and the burden of...
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Christmas in My Heart
My thoughts and feelings days before Christmas are a rhythm of struggles, hard prayers and deep ponderings on the meaning of all these things we do during this season, and also a flurry of birthday...
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I haven’t been around for weeks. They buried my beloved mother 3 Sundays ago. I couldn’t even be there. But the thing that had so scared me the most, the day my mother would leave this world, the Lord...
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My IG and FB newsfeeds spewed out photos of a cathedral being consumed in an inferno. I’m usually in a hurry checking comments on social media, but I lingered to see what it was all about. That only...
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