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    World weary? “All Things New” Torches our Hope

    Even as I load this post into Engage, the stock market is plunging over a cliff. I,000 points down, which must have triggered a rebound.  Now roller coastering back up. Now plunging again in just the time it has  taken to type this paragraph.    Sometimes reading my Facebook page feels the same way. A friend's three-year old dies. Another gets a stunning prognosis on lung function.   I've spent hours this past week talking with women in the throes of such horrific trials that all we can do is grieve together and pray.    Sometimes I get bogged down in chronic weariness over our political trench warfare or going…

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    This Too Shall Pass

    I wrote this blog post on May 7, 2012, not quite five years ago. I had no idea that by this point, I would hardly be walking, using a scooter 95% of the time and unable to move without a walker for the rest. Pain and serious weakness are my daily companions. As I noticed the counts on my most popular blog posts and discovered this one among the top, I am grateful that the wisdom God gave me five years ago is even more true today. And I am grateful that I can even minister to myself . . . Sometimes it’s the simplest things that help us navigate…