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Bouncing Back When Your Chances Are Zero!
What are the chances you will succeed? What are the chances you will overcome the obstacle you are facing right now in your life? What are the real numbers? The chance your marriage will last, you will get the promotion you so desire, your kids will turn out right, you will find true love and a meaningful life? What are the chances?
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Singin' about Dyin'
When my dad was diagnosed with terminal brain cancer a few years ago, quite a few changes occurred in my perspective on life and death. The brevity and fragility of life were no longer abstractions. I truly felt them. One result of this new awareness was that I began to notice all the hymns and songs with stanzas about dying.
I recall selecting some songs for Sunday school one day. As I glanced down the list of songs in our database—those we hadn’t sung in a long time, I came to a title I’d passed over many, many times. This time it gripped my attention. A song that had seemed frivolous and silly to me before now moved me deeply as words and music played involuntarily through my mind.
Some glad morning when this life is o’er, I’ll fly away
To a home on God’s celestial shore, I’ll fly away.
The congregation sang it in Sunday school. It’s providential that I was at the piano because I don’t think I could have sung it. Though it had never been more than a light, peppy trifle to me before, it was now too strong to sing.
For a while, quite a few songs were hitting me like that.
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Scripture Contains The Word Of God.
I Corinthians 7:12 KJV, “But to the rest speak I [Paul: , not the Lord.”
Ibid. 25, “Now concerning virgins I have no commandment of the Lord: Yet I give my judgment, as one that hath obtained mercy of the Lord to be faithful.”
II Corinthians 8:8 KJV, “I speak not by commandment, but by the forwardness of others.”
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