Category: Faith in Ordinary Life
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I wrote this the day after Emily died. I haven’t changed it. Well life does have a way of pulling the rug from under you when things are going well… Emily lost her battle. Not to the cancer she beat twice. But to the numerous infections her newly transplanted Spanish immune system couldn’t fight off.…
Emily
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We have all had moments where life slips a bit. Where things do not go to plan. Sometimes it is visible. Sometimes it is entirely private. It might be stress, or loss, or regret, or loneliness, or simply the quiet feeling that you are not quite where you hoped you would be by now. I…
Thought for the Day: Being Caught
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When we moved house, I had to learn a new oven. New dials. New symbols. Even the clock needed setting before anything else would work. I did what most people would do: dived straight in. Pressed buttons, experimented, assumed I could figure it out. How hard can an oven be? Harder than I thought, as…
Thought for the Day: Gratitude
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Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit. Rather, in humility value others above yourselves, not looking to your own interests but each of you to the interests of the others. — Philippians 2:3–4 We were selling our house in Newport. The boiler was fifteen years old and starting to make its objections known,…
The Boiler Story
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I did not grow up in a Christian home…. but ended up meeting my savior.
My Testimony