Month: December 2009
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Reasons and Reasons for Hope and for Happiness
Amy Carmichael, on a picture of the Alps — a pine-filled slope leading to a misty valley, with mountains beyond and clouds edged with light. I see in this valley and mountain a general view of our years. We stand, when we are young, on the sunny slope among the pines, and look across an…
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Christmas Children
Luke 1 is one of my favourite scriptures. Far less famous than Luke 2 (“And it came to pass in those days, that there went out a decree from Caesar Augustus” — you know the one), the entire chapter is potent with the intervention of God. Praise, prophecy, and the workings of the impossible —…