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Awake at Night

Mad instead of asleep. Discouraged instead of sleeping. Worried, fretting, figuring, troubled — all instead of peacefully slumbering. Tossing and turning, steaming and fuming. Because I can’t sleep. Having never started or having been awakened. In the “middle” of the night. Here’s something better: “My soul shall be satisfied as with marrow and fatness; and [...]

Been in the Field Yet?

Maybe you don’t have one. That’s OK. Isaac went out to meditate in the field at the eventide. —Gen. 24:63. Let the words of my mouth, and the meditation of my heart, be acceptable in thy sight, O Lord, my strength, and my redeemer. When I consider thy heavens, the work of thy fingers, the [...]

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