“So,” you ask, “does the law contradict God’s promise?” Absolutely not! Never was there written a law that could lead to resurrection and life; if there had been, then surely we could have experienced saving righteousness through keeping the law. But we haven’t. ~ Galatians […]
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How Foolish!
How foolish can you be? After starting your new lives in the Spirit, why are you now trying to become perfect by your own human effort? (Galatians 3:3) Thus started one more journey to the asylum for Jim. Here was […]
Continue reading »Depend on It
But the strange part of it is that, no matter what drinking did to us, loss of our health, our jobs, our money, and our homes, we still stuck to it and depended on it. ~ Anonymous. Twenty Four Hours A […]
Continue reading »The End
We always knew what the end was, goal weight, wearing the size dress that Mother did, fitting into the outfit that had gone out of size, decades back, but success was fitting it again, looking like we wished for the […]
Continue reading »Respectable
…there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem. ~ Booker T. Washington What was respectable during childhood? Mother’s acceptable behaviors clashed with Grandmom’s, Daddy’s mom. And I took after Grandmom and the rejection rubbed […]
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