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I Want to Change “C” from “Cancer” to “Christ”

I Want to Change “C” from “Cancer” to “Christ”

by | Aug 19, 2025 | , , , , , , ,

A TESTIMONY IN THREE PARTS - PART THREE On March the 25th, 2019, I had an appointment at Shands Hospital in Gainesville, Florida to start a new drug to see if my heart would function better. They admitted me so I could be monitored. Unfortunately, after a day and a half, they had to stop the drug. It was causing my heart to beat too fast. All the monitors in my hospital room were going off, signaling my heart was in distress. This was when I knew I had reconnected with Christ and made my...

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Blessings in disguise

Blessings in disguise

by | Aug 18, 2025 | ,

God's Sovereignty in our Suffering:  Proverbs 31:10 posed a unique question when it asked, “An excellent wife who can find?”  In response to this, I thought about several Biblical marriages and was hard pressed to find many wives who would fit the bill. Solomon, who had 700 wives, gave this gem of wisdom in Proverbs 21:9, “It is better to live in a corner of the housetop than in a house shared with a quarrelsome wife.” I’m not sure how many houses he owned, but Solomon probably spent a lot of...

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He Makes Beautiful Things

He Makes Beautiful Things

by | Jul 25, 2025 | ,

As I arrived at the row I'd be sitting in Sunday morning, I saw people behind us I did not recognize. We shook hands over the chairs, making our introductions. I moved along toward my husband since church was about to start. I first met Michael, then Nikki, and next...! "Well, hello.....!" I exclaimed with surprise. She stood up, and we hugged over chairs, as instruments doused our conversation. I took my seat and joined in the singing. I'm so grateful for spiritual and relational family in...

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Let Freedom Ring

Let Freedom Ring

by | Jul 20, 2025 |

In Galatians 5:1, 5, 13 the Bible says, "It was for freedom that Christ set us free; therefore keep standing firm and do not be subject again to a yoke of slavery...For we through the Spirit, by faith, are waiting for the hope of righteousness...For you were called to freedom, brethren; only do not turn your freedom into an opportunity for the flesh, but through love serve one another."  After some really hard years due to circumstances beyond my control, I was struggling with victim mentality...

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Jesus is the only way

Jesus is the only way

by | Feb 24, 2025 |

 In John 10:9, Jesus says, "I am THE DOOR; if anyone enters through Me, he shall be saved, and shall go in and out, and find pasture." In John 14:6, Jesus tells His disciples, "I am THE WAY, and the truth, and the life; no one comes to the Father, but through Me."  One dusty afternoon in Senegal, while serving at Dakar Academy, I chatted with the neighborhood pharmacist who subscribed to the local religion. He parroted what many self-directed people in our world purport, "All roads lead to...

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Shields & Swords

Shields & Swords

by | Jan 26, 2025 |

My husband can't breathe. Your car broke down again? Her family has the flu, for the second time, or third time. Their heaters went out last month, this month. His bank account drained faster than the kitchen sink! Adult children raised in Christ are running away from God. And I'm so restless at my job - up days and down days. Why do I fight this calling? It seems like one problem after another. People I love are struggling and can't seem to catch a break. What is going on, God? This stinks!!...

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Faith like a child

Faith like a child

by | Sep 30, 2024 |

Dear Abba, You sent your One and only Son, Jesus Christ, on an important mission to Earth. Jesus came shining - The Light; testifying - The Truth; leading us - The Way; reviving us -The Life. Jesus, God in the flesh, was and is the most important person in all of existence. He could have commanded boardrooms, palaces, and city gates. Instead he tended to fields of paupers, women, and children -  The Good Shepheard. And Oh, the children...how Jesus loved the little children!  "Let the little...

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HELP!!

HELP!!

by | Jul 1, 2024 |

"God! I can't go on like this!" My marriage was a constant wrestling match. We were missionary dorm parents. We had handfuls of dorm children and four boys of our own. I was downright miserable with constant conflict, seething judgmentally over the most recent clash. In this chair on the flat roof of a two-story cement dorm in West Africa, I was desperate for a Holy Ally. As I read through my Bible in Psalms, God highlighted verses to let me know He had a...

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TRUST AND OBEY

TRUST AND OBEY

by | Mar 7, 2023 |

This hymn, learned in church when I was a child, drives my will forward when God calls my husband and I to take what feels like huge risks. When His voice rings clear, we obey to sit still, dig in, or step out, praying He'll strengthen us to remain surrendered as He works out His good and perfect will. Over years of repetitively walking by faith, and seeing how God works things out, we have gained confidence to anchor ourselves in His grip. Yet often, I grow weary when the journey winds longer...

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MY PRAYER FOR YOU

MY PRAYER FOR YOU

by | Jan 26, 2023 |

Who is holding your heart right now? Who is your strength, encouragement, and support to get you through this day? Who will rejoice with you in triumph or cry with you in pain? I pray that as you read this, the Heavenly Father’s loving presence pours over you from head to toe, and that you hear His Holy Spirit say, “Pick Me.” God is with you. In this very moment, His breath is in your lungs, His design is in every building block of your DNA. His mind is eager to share wisdom and guidance with...

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