Family Missions

When my aging grandmother moved into my mother’s home, I witnessed a beautiful picture of God’s love. My grandmother had fallen and was undiscovered for nearly three days. After a stay at the hospital it was determined she could no longer live alone, so my mother and her new husband took her in. It was very difficult—not because my grandmother was terrible, she just wanted to "go home."
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Funny Feet

I have funny feet. They are short and plump with stubby little toes that curl. In fact, when I married, my husband would tell people how cute he thought my feet were. Cute or not, they are my Dad's feet. He had the same kind of feet, but it was not a problem for him—being a man. I, on the other hand, have always had problems making my feet look lady-like. No matter what I do they look short and stubby.
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Tumbleweeds

Tumbleweeds are nature's welcome wagon to New Mexico. It has taken me a while to understand how a tumbleweed tumbles! I've come to realize that it takes a certain set of circumstances to create a tumbleweed. First, the tumbleweed candidate has a shallow root system—not much anchoring the plant to the earth. Second, the shrub gets dried out, due to lack of moisture. Third, a high wind blows and uproots the bush, launching it on its way through fields, and across roads, until it eventually lodges in a fence row.
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We Get to be Co-Sufferers

Though I count it a great privilege to pray for the many needs that are sent my way via email or other means, there are times I feel overwhelmed at the magnitude of suffering endured by my fellow believers around the globe. The old saying that the devil never takes a vacation is certainly true, and yet.
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The Call to Difficult Things

Moses was called to a task he didn’t feel equipped to do: Talk with Pharaoh and be the man to lead the Children of Israel out of Egypt. I can just hear him stuttering all his excuses to God. David was the youngest of many sons and yet, God called him to kill Goliath and chose him to be king. Rahab ran the first Underground Railroad for displaced spies. Countless others in God’s Word were called to do hard things.
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