It's summertime, and the living should be easy. Someone should write a song along those lines. But until someone does, it's up to me to suggest that we should turn the tables on this sweaty season and make it work for us. We should think of the heat as a friend rather than an enemy, a ready-made excuse for all of our various shortcomings. OK, maybe some of you don't believe you have any shortcomings and therefore don't need an excuse for them. You are also probably the same people who believe th...
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CALCULATING GOD'S WILL
By Michael A. Halleen
"So in everything, do to others what you would have them do to you, for this sums up the Law and the Prophets." (Matthew 7:12)
John Cardinal Deardon once observed that "The designs of God are not able to be calculated." We prove Deardon's insight when we try to discover the will of God in the details of our lives. Does God want me to sell the house?....Attend this college, or that one?....Change jobs?....Get married?....Go...
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