Faith - In plain sight
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Faith — In plain sight
Big lesson in serving small
A stethoscope can put a swagger in anyone’s walk. I don’t know if all doctors feel important when they have one around their necks, but I know that some do. My friend Gary had his…
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Faith — In plain sight
Beware your message on the run
Coming back from a run one morning this summer, I did what I usually do, and walked the last couple of blocks in order to cool down. It was a little warmer than usual that…
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Faith — In plain sight
Married to selflessness
August is the month of my wedding anniversary, and I was reminded recently of one of the conflicts we had within the first couple of years of our life together. We were both in jobs…
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Faith — In plain sight
When vocation chooses you
In the novel “Lying Awake” by Mark Salzman, the main character, a nun, becomes confused in her spiritual calling at the convent where she lives. The visions she used to have no longer occur, now…
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Faith — In plain sight
Feasting on fellowship
When my grandmother reached her 90s, she lived in an assisted-living center outside of Chicago. In those latter years, she lost her grip on the present. She didn’t know any of us when we visited.…
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Faith — In plain sight
A single red balloon
Picture this: Southern Ohio in the late summer, no air conditioning, sweltering heat, no breeze, and a 2-year-old with half of his body suffocating in a heavy plaster cast. Makes me sweat just thinking about…
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Faith — In plain sight
Living Bethlehem
My friend Don told me about a time during the Christmas season several years ago when he and his wife loaded their two little girls into their car to drive from their small Ohio town…
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Faith — In plain sight
Grace at work — even in tragedy
When the National Desk of The New York Times called me several years ago and asked if I could hurry to a high school in San Diego that had experienced a shooting, my heart sank.…
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Faith — In plain sight
Feasting on humble pie
Imagine if this had happened to you. It happened in a restaurant in Germany. The restaurant had high tables where patrons would stand and eat a quick lunch. A woman went into the restaurant, bought…
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