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True Love
If you would have asked me 15 years ago what it meant to be loved, my answer would have been very different than it is now. I grew up learning love…
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Use Your Words
Mom was naturally blonde, attractive. She had a mild personality and was never angry. She was not opinionated. She was easy going and spent her lifetime in her hometown of Normal,…
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An introvert, standing alone, inside a maximum-security prison
I first made a profession of faith when I was quite young, while wandering around the Ozark Empire Fair back in the early ‘80s. However, a decade later, when I was…
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Advent: Joy
Week 4 Merriam-Webster defines “joy” as, “the emotion evoked by well-being, success, or good fortune or by the prospect of possessing what one desires.” The worldly definition of joy seems to…
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Advent: Love
Week 3 I was eight years old when it happened. It was the first time I can remember being completely out of control with rage. My younger brother stood under our…
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Advent: Peace
Week 2 You know those brainstorming techniques we were taught in middle school? Like the one where you start with a word and you quickly write whatever words or thoughts come to…
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