Tag Archives: Perseverance

Don’t Forget

Recently, I have had the opportunity to meditate upon the idea of leaving a legacy.  To be specific, I was looking to find an answer to the question: Why is leaving a legacy so important to men?  Most every guy … Continue reading

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Attention to Detail

“The LORD bless you, my daughter,” he replied. “This kindness is greater than that which you showed earlier: You have not run after the younger men, whether rich or poor. And now, my daughter, don’t be afraid. I will do … Continue reading

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Convicted

By day the LORD directs his love, at night his song is with me— a prayer to the God of my life. – Psalm 42:8   Most of the country has experienced at least a piece of the bad weather … Continue reading

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First Snow

He has made everything beautiful in its time. Also He has put eternity in their hearts, except that no one can find out the work that God does from beginning to end. I know that nothing is better for them … Continue reading

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Battalions

“When sorrows come, they come not single spies, but in battalions…”  Hamlet Act IV, Scene 5   Shakespeare may have penned these words over 400 years ago, but he was by no means the first person to experience this phenomenon … Continue reading

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Keeping Your Edge

For though the righteous fall seven times, they rise again, but the wicked stumble when calamity strikes. – Proverbs 24:16 I was channel surfing yesterday when I came across a sports update featuring the results of a women’s downhill skiing … Continue reading

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Unfamiliar

I will lead the blind by ways they have not known, along unfamiliar paths I will guide them; I will turn the darkness into light before them and make the rough places smooth. These are the things I will do; … Continue reading

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Out of the Dark

Then Jesus cried out, “Whoever believes in me does not believe in me only, but in the one who sent me.  The one who looks at me is seeing the one who sent me.  I have come into the world … Continue reading

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Promotion by Erosion

The LORD is my light and my salvation— whom shall I fear? The LORD is the stronghold of my life— of whom shall I be afraid? When the wicked advance against me to devour me, it is my enemies and … Continue reading

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Running

One of the unique things about the movie Forrest Gump is the way the movie divides itself up into chapters of his life.  You have childhood, college, military service, ping pong, and shrimp boat captain, just to name a few.  … Continue reading

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