Embracing Love

Lord of Exclamation Points!

Sometimes -- Often? Always? -- You something amazing, Lord... to express the magnitude of Your Love for us.  Then, You go above and beyond that amazing thing... as if You aren't satisfied to just punctuate it with a "period," because it demands an "exclamation point"!   Not because You must... but because You can! Like yesterday. I received...
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Today’s Everyday Miracle!

A broken piece of soap.  A resounding expression of LOVE. Some people think a "Miracle" must be a "Blind Man Given Sight" kind of thing.... or a "Dead Man Brought to Life."  I have not seen a miracle of that kind (with my natural eyes).  But I have seen many, many, of what I call...
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Lord of Purr-fection!

How could I have lived for so long, Lord -- more than half of the years I could reasonably "guesstimate" I would live on Earth -- and not realize I was a closet cat-lover???  I guess because I never was one... before Skippy. Maybe it was the timing of her sudden appearance some eight years ago, or the circumstances...
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Treasuring My Tangles

My fishing line was hopelessly tangled. We headed out early this morning, in the crisp air and under a socked-in grey sky, to wade fish the nearby Robinson River.  We tried one spot with no success, then headed to a second spot downstream.  No sooner did the hook hit the water, a huge and beautiful...
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God of Signs & Wonders

You and Paul Harvey must be having a good chuckle together!  The kind of joy that two people share when they know a third one they love is discovering, step-by-step, the Surprise they have prepared.  When "the rest of the story" is sill far off, because the joy is in The Journey. I was emailing...
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