What’s in your junk drawer for comfort?
A Junk Drawer Can Be for Comfort
What’s in your junk drawer for comfort?
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in Faith· Family Life· God's love· Life's challenges
What’s in your junk drawer for comfort?
in Books· Writing Life
“Quit reading that book.” Can there be such a freeing admonition? I’d been complaining to a friend about how much I detested a very popular narrative nonfiction book everyone seem to love. This unnamed book violated every lesson I’d ever heard on the topic and I knew people would die as a result of her foolishness. Pretty harsh. But who…
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in Biddy Chambers· Faith· Oswald Chambers· World War I
Jimmy Hanson was one of the people I recognized as a Bible Training College regular during my writing of Mrs. Oswald Chambers. On the last Tuesday of the month for the next five months, I’ll be telling stories of those “BTC regulars.” Why? Because I spent so much time following their fascinating rabbit trails to missionary works around the globe….
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in Faith· God's love· Spiritual issues
“You need to prepare for your future life with forgiveness,” the pastor said during our premarital counseling back in the Dark Ages. He sent us off for a week to think and pray about people we had hurt in our past. We needed to contact them, tell how we believed we had hurt them, and ask for forgiveness. “You don’t…
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in Fear· Life's challenges
While clapping my hands this morning in my dance class, I marveled at the lack of pain. Seven years ago, on 1/11/11, when I joined the health club, my hands were a mess. But other health issues drove me, a woman who had walked three miles a day for twenty-five years, to the gym. I needed to improve my cardiovascular…
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in Books· My Utmost for His Highest· Oswald Chambers· Spiritual issues
Utmost Ongoing; thoughts on My Utmost for His Highest by various writers