Tag: courage
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Help and Hope: Stop Walking Around the Furnace
Most people pray for God to remove the furnace. Few stop to consider that sometimes God is waiting for us to walk toward it. And if we’re being honest, most of us spend a great deal of our lives trying to avoid discomfort. We avoid difficult conversations, grief, doctor’s appointments, forgiveness, change, we even avoid…
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Literally Literary: The Snow Goose
In the early 1940s, the world was at war—and not only on the battlefield. Children were losing fathers, brothers, uncles, and friends. Homes were quieter. Chairs sat empty. Questions went unanswered because the answers were too heavy to carry in plain words. Some authors understood that children did not need explanations, but rather they needed…
Country Girl Gone City 