Encouragement

Playing your note

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  “When I teach, I feel like me.”  Do you remember that quote from the Hillary Swank movie, Freedom Writers? In a dramatic scene wherein Swank’s character is attempting to explain to her frustrated husband why she has such an exceptional commitment to her troubled students, she blurts out passionately:…

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Encouragement

Yesterday ended at midnight

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Write it down. Tape it to your bathroom mirror (or write it in lipstick as Jessica has been known to do). “Yesterday ended at midnight.” Sometimes we need to be reminded that yesterday is over and the Lord’s mercies are brand-new today (Lamentations 3:23). Whether yesterday was full of victories,…
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Dad, you weren’t looking

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“Watch me, dad!” “Okay, I’m watching.” “Dad…you didn’t watch!” “Yes, I did. I saw you do your flip underwater.” “No, you didn’t. When I came up, you weren’t even looking!” I think all parents can relate to this little exchange—we know the unspoken rule that forbids parents to look away…
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God and roller coasters

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Disneyland had a big day a couple of weeks ago. Madelyn (my breath-taking, little, eight-year-old daughter) graduated from the Toontown roller coaster to the Big Thunder Mountain. Our family wasn’t sure this day would ever come (she was so nervous about trying anything bigger that we thought for sure her…
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Run your own race

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“Let us run with endurance the race set before us.” (Hebrews 12:1) As Christians each of us is running toward a prize—Paul called it the “upward call of God in Christ Jesus” (Philippians 3:14). And the beauty of our spiritual race is that while we each have the same end…