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The veil is torn – and the curtain is open! On Resurrection Sunday, everything changes. Yet that change began on Good Friday. The open path into the Holy of Holies is evident. Before the ripping, only the High Priest is allowed in the Holy of Holies. The high priest is symbolic for the people: he…
Compassion is a noun. Compassion. What is it? Who has it, and who doesn’t? Compassion is a noun. That means it’s not action – but the result of this noun will develop into a verb of action. It is “sympathetic pity and concern for the sufferings or misfortunes of others.” Another definition is “sympathetic consciousness…
Nestled among trees in rural southern Virginia, the trailer stood sheltered and hidden from the road. It was not the distance that prevented travelers on the road from seeing the trailer. It was the trees. She had been struggling to recover from Lyme disease, fully cognizant of the fact that the owner of the neighboring…
My childhood home had boundaries – not fences and padlocks, but boundaries which we knew we should not cross. There were perimeters like disobedience and defiance. I remember the evening like it was yesterday. I was supposed to be helping with the dishes, but I skipped outside to play. The sandbox was much more fun…
When parenting is especially hard and you’re not sure what to do with a defiant child, consider granting mercy¹. Do it, not because he deserves it, because mercy isn’t deserved. Do it because we have been the recipients of mercy. As God grants us mercy when we least deserve it, we can model that to our…
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