J. Leland Collins Jr. (Virginia, USA)
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Sign Up TodayO Lord, you are our Father; we are the clay, and you are our potter; we are all the work of your hand. - Isaiah 64:8 (NRSV)
During a trip to celebrate our 40th wedding anniversary, my wife and I had the opportunity to see a glassblower at work. It was fascinating to watch. He blew through the long tube to produce a bubble of molten glass and continued to grow and shape it through heat and...
The pressures of life allow God to shape me.
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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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