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Butterfly Wisdom
It was mid-afternoon a couple of months ago when I received an excited call from my good friend who lives down the hill. “The monarch butterfly has broken out of its chrysalis! Can I come up and release it in your…
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A Scrap of Courage
If good fences make good neighbors1 then our little subdivision was the perfect setting for neighborliness to grow. The streets were lined with rows of 70s-era ranch-style houses. The small back yards were bordered by the type of chain-link fences Texans…
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The Hiding Place
There is a very moving book published a few decades ago called The Hiding Place by Corrie ten Boom.1 It tells the story of a Dutch Christian family during WWII who hid and saved many Jews in their home in Haarlem.…
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The Shape of a Heart
As I walked down the hallways of a busy child care center last week, I was surrounded by dozens of pink, white, red and lilac-blue hearts that adorned each class’s bulletin board. From the carefully printed and precisely-cut school-age classroom displays…
