Encouragement
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Are You Optimistic? The Online Etymology Dictionary is my friend. It often confirms my quasi-informed suspicions about words and their origins—including the word optimism. When I say that I am optimistic, I want to know whether what I think I mean is what I am actually saying. The word came into English through the French…
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With Additional Devotional Thoughts on Overcoming Adversity With Music Summary: The message, by Tom Sims, focused on the theme of resilience and faith in the face of adversity, drawing on biblical examples from Job, Paul’s letters, and the teachings of Jesus. It began with the universal experience of being ‘knocked down’ by life’s challenges and…
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Will spring fully come? Will it be sooner, or will it be later?
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I stand before You on tiptoe, Oh Lord, with childlike anticipation and wonder, waiting for the moment and the person that You will bring along my way that we might lift each other.
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Losing heart is simply not an option – even when we know that the heart that can be warmed by a loving embrace can be broken by pain. No walls are allowed here. All protective devices are disabled. We must be vulnerable and valiant and that is the path of joyful calling.
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"To climb steep hills … requires slow pace at first." – Shakespeare The bard was right. Climbing is difficult and arduous, but it is the only way up. Whether we climb quickly or slowly, it is a process. As Jonathan rallied his armor bearer to climb the mountain and to take on the Philistines, so…
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