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What Am I Afraid Of?

When I was a child I was, like most children, afraid of things that go bump in the night. But I told myself (for no good reason) that monsters which lie ...


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Whose Will?

It is difficult to be honest about the choices we make. Rather than "I decided to ..." we say, "God directed me to..." When things ...


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Sound and Fury That Signifies Something

One of the great treats to me in this last Thanksgiving break was a television concert presented by the Philadelphia Orchestra. It was Eugene Ormandy's ...


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Be All That You Can Be

Your great glory is not to be inferior to what God has made you.


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Made to Stretch

God created man something on the order of a rubber band. A rubber band is made to stretch. When it is not being stretched, it is small and relaxed; but ...


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Stretched to Hit the Mark

A saint's life is in the hands of God as a bow and arrow in the hands of an archer. God is aiming at something the saint cannot see; He stretches ...


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Making Wounds a Source of Healing

Making one's own wounds a source of healing ... does not call for a sharing of superficial personal pains but for a constant willingness to see one's ...


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God Shapes Our Pain

Pain is only intolerable when seen in a distorted light. But when we know it is the hand of a loving God that shapes it all, and that it is our Father ...


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Now What, God?

In the aftermath of Hurricane Andrew's devastation, as my grandson, Stephan-Nelson, was working night and day helping the survivors to get water and ...


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The Tragedy of Life

The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.


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