April 26, 2004
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Your desire to feel God close by, comforting like a friend, will be answered.
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God's answer to all the tough questions that life can dish out to us: "Trust Me."
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Falsely accused and convicted of a crime, sentenced to over 20 years, Alicia Alvarez found freedom—and exoneration—between the pages of a book in the prison library.
Here are some ideas you can try right away to start finding more that's good in your daily life.
It can be so easy to fall into the credit-card trap and find yourself overextended financially. But prayer can get you out.
In honor of National Poetry Month, a sampling of poems that offer spiritual perspectives.
Tucked to bed, and snuggled down with holy hope,The farm in darkness sleeps, to dream the coming of the snow,Which, obliging, as if in answer to a prayer,Throughout the night falls floating in celestial silence,The accumulated mercy of so many feathery blessings down,Until the grace of Heaven's vast transforming crownRests lightly as a comforter upon the eager soul of that receptive ground.
God's direction and protection are constantly with us.
The next in our continuing series on what church membership can do for you, your neighbor, and the world.
It was my ritual:
taking a warm bubble bath, putting on fuzzy cotton PJ's, brushing my teeth, kissing my dad on the cheek, and heading off to bed.
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Hussam Abdo,
a 16-year-old Palestinian boy and would-be suicide bomber, grabbed world headlines briefly last month when he didn't blow himself up.
After an hour's restless sleep, I decided to sit up in bed and pray— I would not sleep again until I felt healed, no matter how long it took.
One
evening as I was getting ready for bed, I suddenly felt an exruciating pain in my back.
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Each of us was created for a specific purpose, and each of us is a necessary component to complete God's design for all creation.
