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I Am Sorry for My Grumbling

The Israelites grumbled against the Lord in the desert, even after freeing them from the Egyptians and bringing them safely through the Red Sea. It’s easy to criticize their behavior, but don’t we grumble against the Lord too?
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All Your Saints

The presence or chorus of the saints—living and dead—reassures us that we never travel alone. They might say, “we got your back.”
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Praising in Prayer

What would my relationship with my parents, friends, significant other, children be if I didn’t tell them that I love them? The same goes for our relationship with God.
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Trusting Even When Things Go Wrong

Sometimes things go wrong. It takes trust to remember that even when things don’t go the way we want, God is not deaf to our prayers.
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Knocking At the Door Again

Doors are such a large part of our lives and yet we never really think about them when we pass through them.
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St. Peter, Imperfect

It’s a mistake to put St. Peter on a pedestal when we can learn more from the bumbling oaf he really was. Couldn’t he do better than tell Jesus to get lost? (“Depart from me for I am a sinful ...
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Channeling Anger

“Whoever is slow to anger has great understanding, but he who has a hasty temper exalts folly” (Proverbs 14:29).
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