Ernest S. Lyght (New Jersey, USA)
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Sign Up TodayJesus increased in wisdom and in years, and in divine and human favor. - Luke 2:52 (NRSV)
Recently, when I visited the fields that my grandfather had farmed, I encountered a surprise. Expecting to see open fields, I walked into a forest of giant loblolly pine trees. The fields where he used to plant soybeans more than 50 years ago had been transformed into a forest of...
As I seek spiritual growth, God will transform me into the likeness of Christ.
Farm workers
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I join many of those who will pray for you as you seek to discern what you are called to be at this moment. May God grant you the courage to fulfill that calling. May we all open our eyes and see the misery, open our ears and hear the cries of God’s people, and, like God through the Lord Jesus Christ, be incarnate amongst them.”
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