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“What is God like, and where does He live?
Does He always listen to those who pray?”
If she asks these questions, oh, never give
A casual glance, or impatiently say,
“You’ll understand when you’re [...]

Thanks to an e-mail from my friend I have some questions for you.
Why do I find these intriguing?

Can you cry underwater?
How important does a person have to be before they are considered assassinated instead of just murdered?
Why do you have to ‘put your two cents in’… but it’s only a ‘penny for your thoughts’? Where’s [...]

Exodus 33:14 And he said,
My presence shall go with thee,
and I will give thee rest.
I do not understand, dear Lord,
Why this has come, nor see
Why days are dark and nights so long,
And clouds o’ershadow me.
Dost thou not understand, my child,
Why clouds o’ercast the sky;
That without rain no rainbow bright
Could be, and flow’rs would die?
So in [...]

A Fly Lady Podcast I listened to recently featured an interview with former Navy Seal Marcus Luttrell. Here is a link to the show.
Marcus Luttrell was talking about the attitude needed to make it through the Seal training. He summed it up with this saying, “There’s nothing anybody can do to make [...]

I’d planned to clean the house today
And store all the winter things away,
But a little girl called out merrily
So my task must wait till she’s tired of me.
I’d thought I’d polish all the floors
And finish a hundred household chores,
But a little boy wanted a story read,
His dinner cooked and his puppies fed.
A brown thrush down [...]

Lord, make me strong enough to bear
My little round of anxious care.
The day returns. For this I pray:
Sufficient wisdom for the day.
Although I may not walk with kings,
Let me be big in little things.
Grace me with modesty and teach
Me kindliness of thought and speech;
Let me not hasty be to chide
The children walking at [...]

Every Christian wants to evade the Devil’s snares and traps, right? An evangelist that was at my church recently told us how to do just that.
Let’s say the Devil’s trap is a net and the Christian is the bird in the following verse.
Prov 1:17 Surely in vain the net is spread in the [...]

I walked thru a valley so dark and so low,
The sun did not shine there, but a lily did grow;
I cried to my Fa-ther, “How can this be?”
He said, “Can’t you see, child? I am with thee!”
Chorus:
I am with thee; I am with thee!
Thru the fire, thru the flood
You are covered by the blood;
For [...]

Here Comes the Flag!
Here comes the flag,
Hail it!
Who dares to drag
Or trail it?
Give it hurrahs –
Three for the stars,
Three for the bars.
Uncover your head to it!
The soldiers who tread to it
Shout at the sight of it,
The justice and right of it,
The unsullied white of it,
The blue and the red of it,
And tyranny’s dread of it!
Here [...]

IN CHRIST WE HAVE…

Love that can never be fathomed.
Life that can never die.
Union that can never be severerd.
Righteousness that can never be tarnished.
Peace that can never be understood.
Joy that can never be diminished.
Hope that can never be disappointed.
Glory that can never be clouded.
Light that can never be darkened.
Purity that can never be defiled.
Beauty that can [...]