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One Simple Sentence – One Great Act
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mpratt
One simple sentence in the Bible has been resonating within my head and heart lately, especially as I speak and correspond with people who are in some way facing scary health situations. Here’s the sentence: Do not stifle the Spirit. (1 Thessalonians 5:19) In some ways, the sentence seems to address something impossible. How can…
Something’s Blooming!
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mpratt
Earlier this year, as spring warmed into summer, I received a package of African violet leaves. No plants, or even seedlings. Just leaves, carefully labeled with the name of the variety. I placed each leaf in a little “seed starter” container with soil and a bit of water, then enclosed the leaves in plastic bags,…
Prayer: National Domestic Violence Awareness Month
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mpratt
October is Domestic Violence Awareness Month. This horrible scourge affects people at all levels of society and, although women are most often the victims of domestic violence, many children and men suffer, too. Here is a prayer to accompany this month’s events – and to carry forward into the weeks and months ahead, our petition for…
A Good Bad Hair Day – For All Those Sisters Living with Hair Loss
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mpratt
Bible passages about the beauty and symbolic strength of human hair abound – and became rather difficult for me to read around the time that I began to develop full-blown lupus. One of the first symptoms indicating something was seriously wrong was that I lost my hair. Not in wisps and a few strands. In clumps…
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