Faith - In plain sight
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Faith — In plain sight
On confident footing
When my father-in-law was in his final days, before he was moved from the hospital back home under hospice care, the nurses asked the family if they wanted a priest to visit with him. My…
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Faith — In plain sight
Winter incident provokes warm memories
It’s winter, but you’d never know it by looking out my window right now. I read about winter storms, mountains getting snow, motorists stranded, power outages, and yet all of those reports are from places…
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Faith — In plain sight
Bread winner: Provoking harmony with kind acts
When my wife and I first moved into the house we live in now, our next-door neighbors had their own business and worked out of their home. They seemed nice enough, although they had a…
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Faith — In plain sight
Setting a bigger table
The holiday season usually involves family, and for some people that’s a good thing. For others, not so much. The first book I had published was about being a new father. That led to a…
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Faith — In plain sight
Finding the Presence of mind
Several years ago I was assigned a story by a newspaper, and the person I needed to interview lived about an hour’s drive north of my office. About five minutes into the trip the car…
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Faith — In plain sight
Resolving to love
Now that we’ve gotten that pesky Christmas Spirit out of our system, we can get back to what had been bugging us before we had to put in on hold for the Most Wonderful Time…
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Faith — In plain sight
Don’t miss the moment
One of my colleagues saw me walking through the hallway and motioned me toward his door. “You gotta see this,” he said. When I got to his door I saw that he was pointing to…
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Faith — In plain sight
The gentle hand of grace
Most of us have done something dumb, where we can’t believe we put our lives, our jobs, our relationships, at risk, just because we weren’t paying attention. Here’s how it happened when, just days before…
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Faith — In plain sight
From fibs to fulfillment
She thought she wanted to be a missionary, but the missions organization denied her application. In its kindest choice of words possible, it said that her skills weren’t a “sufficient match” for their purposes. It…
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