If only we could go back in time and share some wisdom with our younger selves.  Today’s meditation is about one little girl who wrote some advice to her older self to be read ten years in the future. ——————    On April 13, 2013 twelve-year old Taylor Scout Smith (2001-2014) wrote herself […]
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   American poet Emily Dickinson (pictured above) died on May 15, 1886 at the age of 55. She wrote over 1800 poems in her lifetime, but she published none of them. Seven were published anonymously before her death, probably without her permission. After Emily died, her sister Lavinia discovered dozens of handmade notebooks in
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By Francis Chan, from his 2008 book Crazy Love: Overwhelmed by a Relentless God    You could die before you finish reading this meditation. I could die while you’re reading it. Today. At any moment.    But it’s easy to think about today as just another day. An average day where you go
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“Ya, I believe in change, all right. Let’s change everything back to how it used to be.” ************************** From a letter by C. S. Lewis to Mary Van Deusen (November 21, 1962), on the difficulties of moving and on the lessons we are taught by life’s many changes.  From The Collected Letters of C.S. Lewis,
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Matthew 11:28-30 – (Jesus said),  “Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For my yoke is easy and my burden is light.” ————————-
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   (…continued) Billy Graham spoke at the National Prayer Service at the National Cathedral in Washington D.C. on Friday, September 16 (pictured above). This inter-faith service was an awkward forum for a man so used to proclaiming the clear claims of Christ as THE Way, THE Life, and THE Truth (John 14:6). Billy Graham’s
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I wrote this piece in 2001 as an article for the monthly newsletter of a Christian mission organization that I was working with at the time. I hesitated to write it, but finally did. The editor hesitated to publish it, and decided not to. The time did not yet seem right. I never did use
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Mary Magdalene at the Tomb  (John 20), by Harold Copping (1863-1932) ————————-     (…continued) “Believe in me,” said Jesus, though there is a problem. This is a nice story, but can we believe it? 2,000 years is a long time ago, and the whole thing is pretty unscientific. Eternal life is a nice hope; but
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    Few people get to live a life as blessed, as successful, and as prosperous as Thomas Jefferson. He was born to wealth and then lived in luxury all of his 83 years. He enjoyed good health for 82 of those years; only in his last year of life did he begin to fail. He
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   John Lewis Dyer (1812-1901; pictured above) was a Methodist circuit riding preacher in the 1800’s. These men went out to the very edge of the frontier to preach God’s word to the new settlers. There were no church buildings for the earliest pioneers, so these preachers traveled a wide circuit to meet with
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