Caught Up in God

Wise counsel is sometimes found in unexpected places.  The following is from Maisie Dobbs (the first in a series of Maisie Dobbs mysteries by Jacqueline Winspear):
Truth walks toward us on the paths of our questions… Wait awhile in the stillness, and do not rush to conclusion, no matter how uncomfortable the unknowing.
Notice that here the [...]

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“What word would you use to describe life?” Josh says to his daughter.
“Peace,” she replies. “Or perhaps joy.”
After a moment she asks him, “What about your own word for life?”
“You wouldn’t want to hear it.”
No, she probably wouldn’t.  The word he is thinking of is “futility.”
Josh, you may remember, is the ex-Christian with whom I [...]

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