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Clinging Tenaciously
We visited Ann’s grave in Iowa a few days before Christmas. I read these words from Max Lucado (slightly paraphrased) as tears ran down my checks into the snow. “When you drop your kids off at school,...
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Is God Good?
Ann was usually the one who worried about our finances, but she was a real trouper during the more than nine months that I was either unem-ployed or underemployed. I still have the yellow sticky note...
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Is God Our Adversary?
Less than a year after the unemployment adversity, I had the opportunity to teach a series of lessons from the book of Ruth to our Sunday school class. As is often the case, God instructed me as I...
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A Third Miscarriage
Ann finally became pregnant again after the two miscarriages. She continued to wrestle with the painful tensions in life—surrendering versus quitting, suffering versus God’s goodness, prayer versus...
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Does Prayer Make a Difference?
God had a plan and that plan was set in motion by Hannah’s impassioned prayer for a son. Hannah didn’t submissively pray, “Help me be content with my barrenness.” She didn’t simply ask for a child,...
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Broken-Hearted
Ann had another doctor’s appointment soon after we returned from our escape in Colorado. The hematologist recommended diagnostic surgery, because Ann’s spleen was still enlarged. A surgeon would remove...
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Where is God?
Nearly three months had elapsed between Ann’s first doctor’s appointment and her diagnostic surgery. We had to wait overnight in the hospital room before we received a preliminary (and incorrect)...
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Permanent, Final and Irreversible
We returned from one of our regular trips to M.D. Anderson nearly five years ago, hopeful that the new chemo plan would continue to keep Ann afloat in her cancerous sea. We celebrated Matt’s twelfth...
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Reversing the Irreversible
Minburn Cemetary My friend Greg came over the other Saturday evening to watch the Dallas Mavericks. He asked me two questions. The first was, “How are you doing?” He assured me that he wanted an honest...
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Why Even Bother to Pray? (Sep 8th)
A few months ago I had some rare deep thoughts: Since God is sovereign, knows the future, and has everything planned, then prayer is an exercise for relating to him. When we pray for others, we...
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