Abundant Gifts

Soft whiteness
Falling from the sky
Changes barrenness to beauty
Covers potholes, cracks, scars
with peace.
Just like the grace
That fell from the sky
To be born in a stable.

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This Thanksgiving, I’m grateful for so many things. However, as I reflected upon what I’m most grateful for, I’d have to say one thing: the Holy Spirit.
It simply blows my mind on a daily basis that God actually dwells inside those who welcome Jesus into their hearts, that center of our being that contains everything [...]

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Today I saw one child off to her first day of high school, and another to his first day of college.
I baked our favorite chocolate cake and we ate together, for the second night in a row, something we hadn’t done in it felt like weeks. (If you comment on this blog, I’ll send you [...]

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One of the most enlightening exercises one of my mentors, Alex Mandossian, had us do in a training was figure out what verb describes our essence.
Buckminster Fuller said, “God is a verb.” That is biblically accurate. When God revealed himself to Moses, he said he was the ultimate “be” verb: “I AM WHO I AM” [...]

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When the Red Sea saw you, O God,
its waters looked and trembled!
The sea quaked to its very depths.
The clouds poured down rain;
the thunder rumbled in the sky.
Your arrows of lightning flashed.
Your thunder roared from the whirlwind;
the lightning lit up the world!
The earth trembled and shook.
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Happy New Year!
I’m about to go make one of my favorite recipes for our New Year’s meal, and I thought I might as well share it with you. These spiced sweet potatoes go well with ham, turkey, chicken, is relatively healthy, and gets rave reviews whenever I make it. Reheats well. Even my teenagers like [...]

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I hope you enjoy this story from Abundant Gifts, appropriate for Christmas.

May the life-giving light of the Savior, Jesus, shine in all your darkness, and bring you the gifts only the Savior can give: love, joy, peace, hope and abundant life forever!

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Today my family is rejoicing in good news:
1. My daughter had a parotid gland tumor removed last week, a very tricky surgery because the main facial nerve is right there. The surgery was successful–no nerve damage–and the tumor benign.
Many spiritual gifts came from that, including the witness to my children that people literally from all [...]

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On Tuesday, November 18, I will be conducting a Virtual Book Tour with New York Times best-selling author, Dinesh D’Souza,  about his book, What’s So Great about Christianity, which just came out in paperback after being on the best-seller lists for months.You’re invited, of course!
The way these “Virtual Book Tours” work is you [...]

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One of the things I “do for a living” is work with publishers and authors to get the word out about their books through something called a “Virtual Book Tour.”
I’d like to invite you to one I’m doing in just a few days.
If you’re a leader of any stripe (parent, educator, church leader, [...]

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