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Are we bearing fruit or weeds?

I woke up yesterday. And I pray I don’t fall back to sleep… lulled by the unending cries of bills and to-do lists that disguise the prosperity and blessing of the loving middle-class American family that I was born into.  ///   Why was I born into this? What did I do before I was born …

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Heart-breaking and heart-destroying…

This girl was not born with this deformity  It started with a mouth ulcer, and then reached out to devour and distort and destroy her beautiful face. /  140,000 children – mostly in sub-Saharan Africa – catch it each year. And 80-90% of them will die, because it does not usually stop until it has destroyed …

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Standing out, being outstanding…

More from the Compassion Bloggers trip to the Philippines… You know what I think blesses and benefits me most as I follow along with these Compassion Blogger trips? It’s the clarity I gain in my spiritual vision. It’s the dividing line between what is really blessing and what isn’t always. It’s the finger of God …

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Always a place for gifts…

I’m one of the artistic type of people. I love to make things beautiful…with fabric…with a piano or keyboard-that-places-an-orchestra-at-my-fingertips…with words…with a mouse and screen and vectors and colors…with website coding. But so often, I wonder how God can really use art. It often seems so very unpractical and unnecessary in the grander scheme of things…even …

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