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2122) The Saddest Word

By Janie B. Cheaney, posted September 30, 2019, at http://www.wng.org , the website for World news magazine ————————————– I don’t envy others their big houses or frequent vacations (or not much!).  Here’s what I do envy: Those grandparents who get to visit their grandkids more than twice a year.  Living less than a day’s drive—say, […]

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2106) Faith and Happiness

By Randy Alcorn, posted September 25, 2019 at http://www.epm.org .  Alcorn is the founder and director of Eternal Perspective Ministries, and the author of over fifty books, including several books on happiness. In the late 1990s, Martin Seligman, the president of the American Psychological Association, noted psychology’s emphasis on the negative side of life, including

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2104) Not the Life You Had in Mind?

By Greg Morse, posted March 26, 2019 at:  http://www.desiringGod.org      “I have nothing to show for my life,” he said.      “No career.  Few friends.  No spouse.  No financial future.  Nothing. I’m enslaved to debt, struggle with childhood sins, and have little left to hope for.  Don’t hear me say something I’m not,

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1843) Down Syndrome Lives Matter

Reblogged from the “Eternal Perspectives Ministries” website, April 25, 2018, by Randy Alcorn at: http://www.epm.org      Years ago, the television series “Life Goes On” portrayed a teenager named Corky who had Down syndrome.  The starring role was played by a young man with Down syndrome, and many people were touched by his winsome performance.

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1832) A Pretty Good Person

In these daily meditations I have often told stories of the great heroes of the faith– reformers like Martin Luther, missionaries like John Paton, and evangelists like Billy Graham.  I have also told many stories of the tremendous courage and character of those who suffer for their faith in nations where Christians are persecuted.  These

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1787) Choosing Life Over the Olympics

 THE MIKI ANDO STORY What would you have given to become an Olympic athlete?  One famous Japanese figure skater knows what she wouldn’t give. By Eric Metaxas and Anne Morse, posted March 2, 2018, at: http://www.breakpoint.org —————————————-      The skater is gliding gracefully across the ice in a bright red costume, holding her arms

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1643) Better Than College

By W. Scott Lamb, July 28, 2015, at:  http://www.washingtontimes.com ————————      If you’ve got a recent high school graduate who is shuffling their feet about his or her plans for the fall — “Should I go right into college, or not?” — then you might want to keep them away from this quote by

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1494) So Soon

“When Did I Become the Mother and the Mother Become the Child?” by housewife, mother, and author Erma Bombeck (1927-1996), from her 1971 book If Life is a Bowl of Cherries, What Am I Doing in the Pits?   ————————————-      A nuclear physicist once figured out that if a woman has a baby

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1489) God’s Agenda for You (part three of three)

     (…continued)  What we are told in the Bible is that “in all things God works for the good of those who love him” (Romans 8:28).  That being the case, there are a few things we should keep in mind.      First of all, knowing what God’s three-part agenda is for us, we

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1488) God’s Agenda for You (part two of three)

     (…continued)  Many stories in the Bible teach us that problems are a necessary part of the agenda, and, in the long run, the problems do everyone a lot of good.  Let’s begin with the one fellow that was allowed to escape part #2 (at first, anyway), the Prodigal Son.  He had the promise of

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