For What Was I Created or …
“For what was I created?” or, “For such a time as this?” Our majority culture as well as contemporary church culture will often encourage us to explore the gifts and abilities that make us who we are and challenge us to do those things for which we are uniquely created. That is, we are told…
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How We Spend Our Days
“How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.” – Annie Dillard, The Writing Life “How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives; and how we spend our lives, of course, determines the person we become.” – Keith Shields, Thirst If I spend my days writing, I…
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Our times are in your hands:But we count our times for us;we count our days and fill them with us;we count our weeks and fill them with our busyness;we count our years and fill them with our fears.And then caught up short with your claim,Our times are in your hands!Take our times, times of love…
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Once we begin to think about our place in time and geography, the mystery of where we happen to exist is great. Think of all of the other points in time we might have been born. I was born in the latter half of the 20th century; but, I could just as easily have been…
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