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As I look to the future, I feel like I’m a little kid again begging my dad to not make me ride the roller coaster. It’s too big! it’s too tall! it’s too fast! I’m too scared! I’ll be.....
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Around the Supper Table #93 – Bible Heroes
I remember being in Sunday School when I was young and hearing about all of the Bible heroes. What great men and women!! Oh, how I wished I could grow up and be like them. David killing Goliath, Sampson killing.....
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Around the Supper Table #92 – Praise You in This Storm
Recently, I was looking at a painting of an arid region similar to ours, and I noticed that all of the color was in the sky, not the landscape. It struck me, because I like color. I like life. I.....
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Around the Supper Table #91 – Finishing Strong
“Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily best us, and let us run with patience the race that is set.....
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Around the Supper Table #90 – How Can a Good God Allow Bad Things to Happen?
I'm sure everyone has seen what has been going on in the Ukraine over the last few weeks. Honestly, it would be difficult not to have heard something at this point. Slowly we have started seeing images of suffering and.....
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Around the Supper Table #89 – Cycle of Addiction
In my former life, one of my jobs was a counselor in a substance abuse residential facility. When I first started working there, I had very limited experience working with people with addictions, and I had many preconceived ideas about.....
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Around the Supper Table #88 – God Controls the Seasons
This past week, we lost our cat Smokes. Smokes started meowing outside of the barn one morning and never left. I am not exactly sure where he came from, but I know God wanted to bless us with this special.....
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Around the Supper Table #87 – Introduction of Nana: Wisdom Through Experience
Hello, my name is Sarah, but everyone calls me Nana. Pa and I are the oldest at Sanctuary Family Farms, and I have had a myriad of experiences simply because of my age. In all of those years, I can’t.....
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Around the Supper Table #86 – Never Alone with God
I sit there waiting. Any second now I know deep down inside that the little voice in the back of my head will come back. The silence echoes in my mind and eats away at me. Its stillness is almost.....
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Around the Supper Table #85 – Seemingly Opposite
Have you ever seen two things appear to be completely opposite yet actually occur at the same time? I work out on a daily basis with a few people, and it is interesting to see how I handle the process. .....
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