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Watercolor Wednesday: Roses to delight
This Sunday, America and some other countries (for example South Africa, I believe) will celebrate Mother’s Day. Not Mothering Sunday, the fourth Sunday in Lent that is observed in the UK, but the holiday that falls on the second Sunday in May, as I explain in Finding Myself in Britain. Mother’s Day was first celebrated…
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Devotional of the week: Love in action (11 in Fruit of the Spirit series)
…this is my prayer: that your love may abound more and more in knowledge and depth of insight, so that you may be able to discern what is best and may be pure and blameless for the day of Christ, filled with the fruit of righteousness that comes through Jesus Christ. (Philippians 1:1–11) The apostle…
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Tina Brown on Transatlantica: There’s No Place Like Home
I read Tina Brown’s Vanity Fair Diaries with some fascination and yet a sense of repellence. I’ll share more in the next post, in which I explore the writing of her diaries and her views on publishing, but as it’s Friday, the day on which I shared the “There’s No Place Like Home” series, I…
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Watercolor Wednesday: Selby Avenue in St. Paul
It’s another dreary day in Londontown, so I thought some bright colors might bring some cheer with today’s art by my dad. This is a scene from Selby Avenue in St. Paul, Minnesota. I love the welcoming lights inside, beckoning people in from what looks like a crisp and cold day outside. Would you stop…
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Devotional of the week: Walk in the light (10 in Fruit of the Spirit series)
For you were once darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. Live as children of light (for the fruit of the light consists in all goodness, righteousness and truth) and find out what pleases the Lord. (Ephesians 5:1–14) One night when I was walking home after some meetings in Central London, I felt a strong…
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Five Minute Friday: Which Way to Turn?
Whether you turn to the right or to the left, your ears will hear a voice behind you, saying, ‘This is the way; walk in it.’ (Isaiah 30:21) For years I’ve loved this verse out of Isaiah. I should put some more time into studying its background and historical context, for I fear that in…
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Watercolor Wednesday: God the Master Artist
My daughter and I have been sorting through her stuff so that I can build a new desk bed in her room. When flipping through the piles of paper, I came across this watercolor by my dad that I don’t remember seeing. What a treasure! I love the swathes of colors, evoking memories of gorgeous…
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Devotional of the week: Law and spirit (9 in Fruit of the Spirit series)
So, my brothers and sisters, you also died to the law through the body of Christ, that you might belong to another, to him who was raised from the dead, in order that we might bear fruit for God. (Romans 7:1–6) In this passage, Paul continues to describe the new life we should be enjoying…
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Watercolor Wednesday: Sister Love
My sister had a birthday recently, and when I called her I rued the fact that I have been outside of Minnesota for so many decades – and thus not able to take her to lunch on her birthday. It’s times like these when I feel the distance most keenly. At least technology is so…
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Devotional of the week: Holiness (8 in Fruit of the Spirit series)
But now that you have been set free from sin and have become slaves of God, the benefit you reap leads to holiness, and the result is eternal life. (Romans 6:1–23) I wonder what it was like for Paul on his missionary journeys. He must have felt the pain of separation with the huge gulfs…
