Category Archives: Heart, Spirit, and Faith

Five Incredible Words

In John 16:33, just hours before his crucifixion, Jesus tells his bewildered apostles, “In this world, you will have tribulation. But take courage, for I have overcome the world.” As I consider the kinds of tribulations this world swarms with, … Continue reading

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El Roi, The God Who Sees

According to the world population clock, on November 15, 2016, there were  7,359,444,900 people inhabiting our planet. More than twice as many had been born (117,572,614) than had died (49,606,841) during the year by then. Those numbers include the  315,873 … Continue reading

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For the Love of a Tree

Across the stream behind my late-boyhood home in Cascade, Michigan, there stretched a forest where hepaticas bloomed purple and pink in the spring, profusions of trilliums scattered like popcorn beneath the understory, and colonies of downy rattlesnake plantain and shining … Continue reading

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