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The Path to Holiness

Let us strive and pray that the love of holiness may be created within our hearts; and then acts will follow, such as befit us and our circumstances, in due time, without our distressing ourselves to find what they should be. You need not attempt to draw any precise line between what is sinful and…

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God Knew Us

Before it ever crossed our minds that God might be important, God singled us out as important. Before we were formed in the womb, God knew us. We are known before we know.This realization has a practical result: no longer do we run here and there. Our lives are not puzzles to be figured out.…

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Mulligan: when a player gets a second chance to perform a certain move or action.

A well-educated, intelligent, friend of ours recently suggested that she hoped that re-incarnation might be a reality. She hoped that she might get a chance at a mulligan. There were some things she thought she might be able to do better next time around. She is drawn to Buddhism, not because she understands it, but…

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Still Obeying

 You must have often wondered why the enemy [God] does not make more use of his power to be sensibly present to human souls in any degree he chooses and at any moment. But you now see that the irresistible and the indisputable are the two weapons which the very nature of his scheme…

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I Miss Mayberry

I miss Mayberry. Mayberry is the fictional American town in the television series, “The Andy Griffith Show.” It is a place where the local sheriff and his deputy have little to do and are always available to help find a lost dog or farm animal. It is a place where no one locks their doors…

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