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As part of the fallout from our current lockdown, I’m feeling hug deprived. Not only do I not have my grandkids to hold, but I’m also missing the many pleasant greeting embraces I typically receive in the course of a week from my friends and family.
I’ve heard little talked about this great loss COVID has wrought – our restrictions on touching each other. In the new post-pandemic world will we have to refrain…..
When “Amazing Grace” proclaims, “I once was lost, but now am found,” it resonates with Christians. We celebrate ourselves as “found” people, humans transformed because they know God loves them.
But the notion of being a “found” people can easily give way to an untrue corollary: once found, you’ll never be lost…..
In the days when I was raising my children and not working outside the home, I would sometimes bristle at calling myself a “homemaker.” It made a better title than “housewife” (which I couldn’t stand!), but didn’t seem to cover what I considered the extraordinariness of my job. Often I would correct people and insist that I…..
When we read Exodus’s story of Israel’s flight into the desert, we usually observe the fickleness of the Hebrews – how they praise God one minute and turn around and complain the next. But when we find ourselves in our own spiritual wilderness period, it’s pretty easy to find things to grouse about.
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