“Therefore, we must give the more earnest heed to the things we have heard, lest we drift away” (Hebrews 2:1). Mother reared me with firmness, Dad more gently, but there was never a cross word in the house. I could count my mother’s aphorisms as stern, but I never dared talk back. I learned right […]
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I knew something was wrong. This something had no words, just feeling. Nothing I observed resembled the unthinking epithets hurled in common conversation. Words like lazy and phrases evincing the sentiment, “they’re not like us” plus more, worse and unprintable. Daniel was none of these. I knew him to be kind, gentle, talented, and smart.
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“Then Jesus was led up by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil. And when He had fasted forty days and forty nights, afterward He was hungry” (Matthew 4: 1,2, NKJV). The son, startled by the familiar voice, turned and locked eyes with his father. He had not known the father
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Tussie and Jordy and the Light descended the stairs, into the dark, through the dungeon and outside. They took to the woods, venturing along the trail. Familiar with the woods, it seemed different now. The air was light. Sunflecks stretched through the canopy. In the Light’s company, the darkness did not surround and cover them.
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