Two large, antique globes stand side by side, each upheld by a heavy, walnut, four-footed frame. One globe depicts the earth. The other depicts a heavenly world.
Two globes in the Musee Hospice Comtesse, Lille, France, depict two worlds – the earth and the heavens.

Living in two worlds, seeing the unseen

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Jesus died and rose again so we can live in two worlds at the same time – the physical one, and the unseen one we see by the Spirit.

Search for brown November

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Most likely, none of us would choose brown and gray all year long. But if we don’t stop to appreciate what God has made beautiful in this time, we may get all our presents and miss all our moments.

Lingering at a crossroads

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Minipost. Encouragement sent to me from an artist friend. It begins: "Not everyone who lingers at a crossroads hesitates in indecision."

Faded black-and-white of four Union soldiers from the Seventy-Seventh Pennsylvania regiment (with one on horseback), outside Shiloh Church at the time of the battle
“In the very center of this dreadful contest, so destructive to life and limb, stood this humble, little log-church, from which the great battle of Shiloh took its name.”

Shiloh

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“In the very center of this dreadful contest, so destructive to life and limb, stood this humble, little log-church, from which the great battle of Shiloh took its name.” April…

ROAR

"Wrong will be right, when Aslan comes in sight. At the sound of his roar, sorrows will be no more. When he bares his teeth, winter meets its death. And when he shakes his mane, we shall have spring again."

A view of the Dead Sea, with palm trees growing in the foreground, on the Israeli side, and in the background, the mountains of Jordan
The Dead Sea

“The Diamond Turns”

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For two hours, I looked up at the night sky from my seat under a palm tree in the lowest place on earth - and I sang to the Lord with the nations.