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October 23, 2020

Strength

Margaret Bishop (Kentucky, USA)

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The Lord is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? the Lord is the strength of my life; of whom shall I be afraid? - Psalm 27:1 (KJV)

My life was going well, but then everything changed. I was in a doctor’s office every day for a week. I was told I had macular degeneration. Wasn’t my severe glaucoma enough? I thought. I experienced a meniscus tear and a painful cyst in the same knee. Wasn’t one or...

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Dear Lord, thank you for your strength that helps us to keep going through pain and change. Amen.
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Psalm 27:1-5

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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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