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My Dad’s Sweater From Ecuador Holds Many Stories

One thing I’ve learned about objects, whether it’s a 25-cent bouncy ball that needs to be returned to its rightful owner or an antique, they either have a story or they don’t. Handling estates and death is never easy. And sometimes an item dear to you is also special to someone else. Unbeknownst to me, my dad’s sweater was one of those items. I had no idea someone else had their own story. That meant someone else loved my dad very much. It’s funny how objects can be sentimental and mean something to us, but will they mean anything 50 years later? Or even 20? Possibly not.

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devotional, Inspirational

Forget What Esau Said, It’s What You Said, Father!

In my teaching today, Jacob is meeting his brother Esau. It’s been over 20 years. That’s a long time not to speak to a sibling. There are times when we leave people for seasons. Having a brother or sister who is a twin and shared the womb must be unique. We often see identical twins and hear stories of how bonded they are, but Jacob and Esau were said to be two different nations. They were fraternal and looked drastically different–one was hairy wearing a fur coat and one smooth skinned.

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Award winning author, devotional, Prophetic eyesight

The Art of Seeing as We Wait

I began to reminisce over a book my realtor gave me as a parting gift, “Eyes to See” by Joyce Cordell. Interestingly, in the partially fictional tale of Levi, a tax collector who meets the Messiah, the blind man at the temple gate has keen eyesight and can tell when Levi is downcast by his voice and the way he shuffles his feet. Sometimes we can see with our ears.

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devotional, Inspirational, The Lamp Worker, and The Crucible

The Glass Blower, The Lamp Worker and The Crucible

The aged Joshua stepped carefully to the first oven with his ancient tools. He wore steel-toed boots and protective glasses. Synthetic garments cannot be worn here because anything made of false fibers will melt. The heat from the oven warms Joshua’s face as he continues spinning the metal rod in a circular motion. He has great vision for his work and can foresee the finished masterpiece before he ever breathes upon it.

“Before I formed you in the womb, I knew you” (Jeremiah 1:5).

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devotional, Memoir

Can We Drink This Cup?

I missed the life we had before the sickness came. Just when I thought it could not get any worse, my husband entered our small bathroom and ripped the shower curtain back. He began to yell and curse with bulging eyes and throbbing temples. I felt like death, and my words slurred when I spoke to him. His eyes glazed over my body that had become overweight and flabby. He continued to yell while I sobbed, and like a scene from the Garden, I tried to cover my nakedness.

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devotional, Inspirational, Tekoa Manning, Thirsting for water

* Free Chapter* Give Your Abused Pets Treats Slowly

A year later, after much healing, I noticed a friend’s controlling and defensive behavior towards me.  She seemed to yell at me a lot when things were taken wrong.  As I pondered the snapping issue, I heard this message in my spirit — “If a dog has been abused, it may snap at you.” Oh, my, revelation into the healing of the soul! So, I did what any other certified googleologist would; I googled it. “How to care for an abused pet.”

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devotional, Inspirational, Tekoa Manning

How can we be wholly illuminated with our families, on the job, and friends?

Some of us have a point on a map, a calendar, a datebook locked in our brain, and we can tell you the exact moment of the car wreck, the diagnosis, or our child that died before it ever learned to talk or even before it exited the womb. There is a moment in time where we look back at the shattered glass, the addiction, the iron bars, the chemo, the foreclosure, the divorce papers, the bruises, the rape, the welfare department, the mental break down, or the charade of pretending to be put together when we were one button shy of falling apart!

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devotional, Tekoa Manning

It’s Good to Dine at the King’s Table: Mephibosheth

When David searched for Jonathan’s son, and brought him to the palace, and placed him at his table, the King’s table covered his twisted legs that wouldn’t work right. The king’s table hid all his infirmities. He was under the shade of that table, and he was fed delicacies. One day, Mephibosheth went from thinking he was a dead dog to eating at the king’s table. What a remarkable thing David did. He was showing kindness to the seed of his enemy

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