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Don’t Go Into the Cellar! Fear and our faith

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I sought the Lord, and He answered me; He delivered me from all my fears. Psalms 34:4 When I was little, my mom had a rattlesnake rattle in her top dresser drawer. It was kept in a gold ring box -- a token from her teenage years living in New Mexico.  She and a group of friends were on the sand dunes near her home. She stepped off a rock and was confronted by an enormous rattlesnake coiled and ready. A boyfriend saved her and presented her with the rattle as a memento.  …

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One More Thing To Mourn

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SF. Chronicle My church summer camp may burn down today. Other camps are gone. Harley Goat Farm near tiny Pescadero, California, where we'd take the kids during camping trips, also may be in danger.I feel like my childhood, my happy memories are being torched. It is a heavy feeling. Our home is safe, unlike 50,000 structures under threat throughout the state. But the air isn't fit to breathe. Another sucker punch to the gut The New York Times …

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One Brick at a Time: Rebuilding and Renewal

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Part of Nehemiah's wall in Jerusalem Many things have fallen apart during this strange time of COVID-19. For some, it is a sense of well-being and safety. For others, it is mental health. Long months of isolation have worn down our defenses against anxiety and depression. We are feeling increasingly hopeless.Some people have seen their …

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