The Lord gave, and the Lord hath taken away; blessed be the name of the Lord. – Job 1:21   It happens often. A football player scores the game-winning touchdown, a basketball player makes a miracle shot to win the game, etc. and during the post-game interview you hear him say, “Praise God.” What we…

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I don’t know why New York City makes me so anxious. But it does. I have a generous friend who is letting me stay at her apartment so I don’t have to pay NY Hotel rates and its view is breathtaking. So rather than be anxious I decided to take some of the same medicine…

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This is the day which the Lord hath made, we will rejoice and be glad in it. – Psalms 118:24   Why stand ye here all the day idle? – Matt. 20:6   At first glance the above passages seem at odds. But during our morning meditation shouldn’t we ask at the dawning of another…

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He healeth the broken in heart, and bindeth up their wounds. He telleth the number of the stars; He calleth out their name. – Psalms 147: 3,4.   Have you ever just lied in the grass or on the hood of a car on a summer’s night and tried to count the stars? I did…

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You Can’t Go Home Again, the title of the novel by Thomas Wolfe has become almost a truism – an assumed fact — but not in my case. Unlike the character in my novel, When Men Betray, I never swore I’d never would return to Little Rock, and I have family and friends who are…

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