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Saved in a blizzard

Jeffery Driscoll

I continued to panic and felt trapped, knowing that if the car ran out of gas, it wouldn’t be long before I would be in dire straits. I was so shaken that I figuratively threw my hands in the air and asked God, “Now what do I do?”

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Because God loves me

Joan Bernard Bradley

A poem about how much God loves us all

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“All tears will be wiped away”

Caryl Emra Farkas

In those moments of feeling God’s presence, of feeling the vastness of divine Love, the unstoppability of Life, the stages of grief seemed to evaporate like a mist when the sun shines through.

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God gave me a friend

Naomi

I had a thought that I might find a best friend very soon. I think that might have been God talking to me because of what happened next.

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Embracing our world with divine wisdom

Douglas Paul

Wisdom’s voice can be heard and accepted. It can win the day for individuals and for nations.

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Giving the reins to God

Karen Neff

Moment by moment, I listened quietly to God’s messages of love. It was a yielding, a letting go of human struggling and striving, but not in a fatalistic way. It was more like handing the problem over to a loving parent.

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Decisive joy

Madora Kibbe

If I feel as if I’ve lost my joy, I go looking for it! And I keep searching until I find it. I pray about joy, for myself and for the world. Joy comes from knowing God, loving God, and being grateful for God’s love for all.

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Never displaced from good

Samuela Orth-Moore

People in Ethiopia, where I am living, are being internally displaced because of an escalating civil war, and some are fleeing to neighboring countries. I have been praying because I have been deeply distressed by the magnitude of this problem and what I have been hearing in the news and in the community around me.

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Finding my way back to Sunday School

Cameron Hill

After he became a teenager, this author began to dislike attending Sunday School and didn’t want to go back. But it was more than a shift in class dynamics that changed his attitude; it was a spiritual breakthrough.