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  • Floundering or Flourishing

    On the first Sunday following the devastation in Japan, I received a phone call from a dear friend in my Noevir business. She had been watching “talking heads” all morning and spiraling deeper into gloom. With all the foreshadowing, she saw her business with our Japanese cosmetic giant being washed away in a tsunami of…

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  • When Life Seems Fragile

    One afternoon in 1898, my grandmother disappeared behind the barn to call the cows. When she reappeared she had received a call from an unseen audible voice announcing, “Take off your shoes; this is holy ground.” Falling to her knees in the pasture this staunch German Lutheran met Jesus Christ as her personal Lord and…

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  • From a devastating earthquake and a tsunami, a baby is safe!

    When the cry of a baby was heard beneath the rubble, soldiers began digging. They found the four-month-old girl tucked under boards and debris safe in her pink pram. Flung from the arms of her parents as the tsunami wrestled their home from its foundation, she had been safely preserved until the waters subsided. Can…

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