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go knock the kid off the slide and take your toy back
Mal McSwain and I were sitting in rocking chairs at Windy Gap. We were watching children play. “Eric, if you want to know what joy looks like. Go watch children play.” So, I did. I paid attention to children playing. I paid more attention to watching my own kids…
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the day i hoped a hawk would come down and take my cat
So, my family collects animals. An outsider would think we are a black market, underground animal rescue mission that has set up a front posing as a white, middle class, suburban family. It goes like this: “Can we get this kitten at the humane society?” “No. No way.…
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a time to talk
When a friend calls to me from the road And slows his horse to a meaning walk, I don’t stand still and look around On all the hills I haven’t hoed, And shout from where I am, What is it? No, not as there is a time to talk. I…
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paul
I had been on staff with Young Life for about six months, when I picked up the phone. The shaky teenage voice on the other end was “Paul”. Paul was in 11th grade, and as best he could, he told me they just found his mom and she had taken…
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