A common mistake we make is that we look for God in places where we ourselves wish to find him, yet even in the physical reality this is a complete failure. For example, if you lost your car keys, you […]
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Patience and Diligence
Patience and diligence, like faith, remove mountains.~ William Penn How do you decide to have faith? Is it not a gift? How do you ask for it? Well, that’s not really the question, is it? How do you decide to […]
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Once upon a time it mattered, the parentage, the birth order, the grandiosity of title, nobility. Children knew their place by looking at their parents when even kings couldn’t read and occupational secrets were handed from generation to the next […]
Continue reading »Ever Want to Be a Simpleton?
I communed with mine own heart, saying, Lo, I am come to great estate, and have gotten more wisdom than all they that have been before me in Jerusalem: yea, my heart had great experience of wisdom and knowledge. And […]
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I prayed for God to keep me from eating my binge foods. I ate food that had fallen into the trash. I ate food that I knew was addictive. Then came the realization: I was not willing. ~ Voices of Recovery […]
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