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Sunny Side Up - Season the special moments with prayer

Sunny Side Up - Season the special moments with prayer

The school’s empty staff room seemed a perfect place to lull a baby to sleep. I sat in a big old armchair, my tiny grandson resting on my lap.
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Sunny Side Up - Are you hurting? God is near.

Sunny Side Up - Are you hurting? God is near.

Today some of my readers didn’t have the luxury of waking at home, surrounded by the familiar, the comfortable, the beloved. Unwanted circumstances have transferred them elsewhere, and life’s ground feels, if not shaky, at least spongy. I understand.
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Sunny Side Up - Opening the gift of hardship

Sunny Side Up - Opening the gift of hardship

Hard times, these. You don’t need me to tell you that, of course. Whether watching bad news or experiencing bad news, it bites. But those stories don’t end there. The Preacher and I were reminded of that in an unusual way a few years ago.
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Sunny Side Up - To everything a season ... turn, turn, turn

Sunny Side Up - To everything a season ... turn, turn, turn

“We’ll work till Jesus comes,” my father loved to sing. It’s taken me decades to learn that life’s hardest work, as well as its greatest pleasure, is learning to truly live it, no matter the season.
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Sunny Side Up - Hard times reveal faith’s treasures

Sunny Side Up - Hard times reveal faith’s treasures

“Consider it pure joy when you experience trials of many kinds,” the Bible instructs Christians in James chapter one.
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Sunny Side Up - Give wisely to the needs around you

Sunny Side Up - Give wisely to the needs around you

Eva had a huge heart – no one would deny that. Generous throughout her life, her habit of generosity became overblown in her senior years. She seemed resolved to out-give God himself.
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Sunny Side Up - This Christian doesn't do Halloween. Anymore.

Sunny Side Up - This Christian doesn't do Halloween. Anymore.

Halloween. I’ve tiptoed around the unholy holiday for years, decades even; some years just choosing to be away from home on October 31st; some hiding in the basement, and others, joining in with what everyone else was doing.
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Sunny Side Up - Watch for God’s unexpected gifts

Sunny Side Up - Watch for God’s unexpected gifts

The Preacher and I spoke at one of our former churches a while back. The platform seemed lower and wider, but the church had changed little in two decades. It took a long time to get to my seat—too many friends lined the aisles.
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Sunny Side Up - Dreams are not necessarily divine messages

Sunny Side Up - Dreams are not necessarily divine messages

The sleeping brain rummages through baggage cart of our daytime thoughts and experiences, jumbling them in often ludicrous ways. The Preacher and I both dream often, but only rarely have we sensed God speaking through those dreams.
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Sunny Side Up - A porch makes room for many things

Sunny Side Up - A porch makes room for many things

Anything can happen on a porch. Connection. Refreshment. Reflection. Rejection, sometimes. Even buying and selling. As a child in the sixties, I had the chore of sweeping our small front porch clear of its weekly accumulation of dirt and spiders.
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