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Last week I was talking with a friend about the practice of keeping a diary - and I said that, to me, keeping a diary feels way too risky - because I'd always be afraid of someone else getting a hold of it and then knowing the things about myself I would rather keep hidden. To which she was...

Love Has Come! Love has come - a light in the darkness! Love explodes in the Bethlehem skies.See, all heaven has come to proclaim it; hear now their song of joy arises:Love! Love! Born unto you, a Savior!Love! Love! Glory to God on high! Love is born! Come share in the wonder; Love is God now...

Take Time to Be Holy Take time to be holy, speak oft with thy Lord;Abide in Him always, and feed on His Word.Make friends of God's children, help those who are weak,Forgetting in nothing His blessing to seek. Take time to be holy, the world rushes on;Spend much time in secret, with Jesus...

Oh We Love Our Kingsby Kathy Escobar Today is Palm Sunday, the beginning of Holy Week on the road toward Easter. I also call Holy week "It's not what we think week". I decided to blog every day this week, until the day after Easter Sunday as a spiritual practice for myself, to remember the...

God of Grace and God of Glory God of grace and God of glory,on thy people pour thy power;crown the ancient church's story;bring its bud to glorious flower.Grant us wisdom, grant us courage,for the facing of this hour,for the facing of this hour. Lo! the hosts of evil round us,scorn thy Christ...

O Worship the King O worship the King, all glorious above,and gratefully sing His wonderful love;our Shield and Defender, the Ancient of Days,pavilioned in splendor, and girded with praise. O tell of his might, and sing of His grace,whose robe is the light, whose canopy space.His chariots of...

Joyful, Joyful, We Adore Thee Joyful, joyful, we adore Thee, God of Glory, Lord of loveHearts unfold like flowers before Thee, opening to the sun aboveMelt the clouds of sin and sadness, drive the gloom of doubt awayGiver of immortal gladness; fill us with the light of day! All Thy works with...

XXVII My Dear Wormwood, You seem to be doing very little good at present. The use of his "love" to distract his mind from the Enemy is, of course, obvious, but you reveal what poor use you are making of it when you say that the whole question of distraction and the wandering mind has now...

XXVI My Dear Wormwood, Yes; courtship is the time for sowing those seeds which will grow up ten years later into domestic hatred. The enchantment of unsatisfied desire produces results which the humans can be made to mistake for the results of charity. Avail yourself of the ambiguity in the...

XXV My Dear Wormwood, The real trouble about the set your patient is living in is that it is merely Christian. They all have individual interests, of course, but the bond remains mere Christianity. What we want, if men become Christians at all, is to keep them in a state of mind I call...