“These things I have spoken to you, that in Me you may have peace. In the world you will have tribulation; but be of good cheer, I have overcome the world.” –John 16:33, NKJV Sometimes I will see a post on social media and it will say something like, “The only thing I need in life is my cat,” or…
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Denial
That lump isn’t cancer. He doesn’t hit me that hard. I’m not that fat. My credit card debt isn’t that serious. I can quit (fill in the blank–drinking, using drugs, gambling) any time I want to. It’s my wife who has the problem, it’s not me. Every day the people we pass in the street, the person who calls on…
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Friends
The only two people I invited to my wedding did not come. After the short wedding ceremony, my husband’s friends (three of them) asked where my friends were. I mumbled something about them having to work. And it was true. Kind of. Mostly my friends didn’t come because they thought I was making a big mistake marrying so soon after…
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Abuse
I’ve watched on the sidelines as people I know stay in abusive relationships. I have warned them and tried to convince them to get out, get out, get out, before it is too late. I’ve noticed how their worlds shrink, their hopes shrink and then eventually their physical bodies cannot take the stress anymore. Cancer and suicide have set in…
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Bathsheba
I attended a luncheon recently and the speaker asked us to think of our favorite mother in the Bible. People around me mentioned Mary, Ruth and others, but I had a name going around in my head nobody was saying, in fact, I wondered why it was in my own mind. Let me take you on a little journey in…
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