J. Leland Collins Jr. (Virginia, USA)
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Sign Up TodayJesus began to weep. - John 11:35 (NRSV)
As I wrote this devotional, it was exactly 34 years ago on Father’s Day that my mother and I stood by my father’s hospital bed to say our final goodbyes. Even after all these years I still miss him. Although I was feeling my own personal pain, it was my...
God is with me in my joys and in my sorrows.
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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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