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Guide Dog Tales: Focus on the Father

For no apparent reason, Iva, my guide dog, stopped in the middle of the sidewalk. The strip mall remained quiet with only a few shoppers. We had been strolling back and forth from one end of the sidewalk to the other in order to get some extra steps in for the day.
“No, Iva, forward!”
She continued, but Iva stopped again on our way back down. Then she led me to the door.

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The Longest Night

Do you ever feel you are walking in darkness? Not the blackness of sin, which is referenced in our key verse, but a season of difficulty. A time when life is filled with gloominess and disappointment. Fear and dread cling to us. We see the world through tear-filled eyes, and we wonder; will it ever improve?
But the shadows of life have limitations.

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Making Room for Jesus

And she brought forth her firstborn Son, and wrapped Him in swaddling cloths, and laid Him in a manger, because there was no room for them in the...

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Hope Still Exists

The screams of Haitian citizens haunt me. My husband described the scene as they raced through the earthquake’s rubble trying to escape the rapidly approaching ocean. Streets became rivers as terror gripped their souls.
The next day, footage emerged showing the Afghan people chasing airplanes, grasping onto the wings, desperate to leave Afghanistan or die trying. Death seems better than the life they fear.

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