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John’s post, “The Longing to Leave,” is one of the most insightful pieces I’ve ever read about how depression can really mess up a marriage. Because when a person plummets into a depression, his first reaction is to look around himself–at those things that are standing in front of him (wife, boss, kids)–and to blame…

Reader Babs shared the following story with me back in June. The information hoarder I am, I filed it to use when I hit the topic of marriage. Voila! See? Clutter can come in handy! One day I was driving somewhere and had Dr. Dobson on the radio. This was back in the nineties sometime.…

Dear God, In Luke’s gospel (Luke 10:1-10), Zacchaeus, a chief tax collector and a wealthy man, wants to see Jesus. But he’s short, and there’s a crowd around Jesus, like usual. So he climbs a sycamore tree to get a better view. The story goes on to say Jesus saw him in the tree, and…

The following mediation by Fr. Bede Jarett was the reflection for Sunday’s reading in my devotional, “Magnificat.” It’s excerpted from the book “He Dwells in Your Soul, Encountering the Living God Within You.” The vision has come; it cannot simply open my eyes to new things in life without thereby altering that very life itself.…
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