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Influence

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It has been a long while since I have posted anything here. I have been busy completing three years toward my B.A. in English and my senior year is underway. My current class (Creative Writing) has finally given me the space to take off the tight harness of academic writing rules, and it feels SO GOOD!! After reading my first assignment, Mom and Daddy gave it their thumbs up and suggested I make it a blog post, so here it is. It is my story and their story. It's a little longer than my usual posts, but as with everything I have ever posted here, I pray it encourages you to run "up the sunbeam to the sun" (C. S. Lewis). "Follow my example,  as I follow the example of Christ." 1 Corinthians 11:1 NIV I sat above them on the stairs. Looking down through the window-like openings in the partition between the living room and the stairway, I listened to the basketball players, football players, baseball players, wrestlers, track athletes, both the lettermen ...
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A Lesson From Hezekiah's War Room

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-- Sometimes you look up and all you can see is a tangle of details and circumstances and you can't begin to see a way through.  Ever been there? Maybe for you it is the daily chaos of being a young mom with little ones, trying to cope with all the demands on your time and energy. Or maybe your tangle is the pit-in-your-stomach-producing thought of your finances in this very uncertain economy. Maybe you have big responsibilities at work and the expectations from above and the truth on the ground seem impossible to reconcile. Maybe for you it is the weight of your own potential and the feeling that you don't know how to put it all together or that your resources don't match your dreams. For Hezekiah, king of Judah, it was a threatening, taunting, mocking letter from Sennacharib, king of Assyria who was trying to undermine his leadership and take over Judah.  The threats were real, devastating attack was imminent and everything was at stake.  But Hezekiah, unli...
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