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One of the most touching portraits of God in the Bible is that of a shepherd tenderly caring for His sheep. The twenty-third Psalm expresses this thought to perfection.

When you're in the middle of an ordinary trip, it's fairly easy to know approximately how far you've come and how far you have to go. Even in an airplane, you can tell when you're halfway to your destination if you've been traveling for two hours on a flight that will take four.

There was a time when too little money was a daily problem for me. I spent a lot of time praying to better understand God's abundance.

In the twentieth century more wealth was created than ever before, but as this new century begins, millions in various parts of the world are bogged down in poverty. Promise of a better tomorrow, an upturn in the economy, and a decent wage for everyone are political pipe dreams to many people.

I was just a kid in grade school. Tensions between my mom and dad were high, and every night at dinner I wondered if they were splitting up.

Some time ago, I began praying more expansively about family, the community in which we lived, and the world in general. I began earnestly trying to heal, at least in my own thoughts, some of the world's problems.

The closeness between parents and small children can be very special, something both will always cherish. This bond also hints at the tender closeness our Parent, God, has with each of us.

If you're facing a separation or divorce that you don't really want, you may be feeling very far from everything that's happy and good. You may even be thinking that if the Apostle Paul had known about you, he could never have written so confidently, "I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

As a small business owner and a single parent, I struggled just to stay up with the demands on my hours. My work sometimes entailed very long commutes to work sites; and along with my business, I had all the usual tasks of parenting.

Many people are asking today, How does Christian healing take place? Is it just imagination, or an emotional faith producing some kind of change in the processes of the brain? Or is there truly a divine power behind it? The line from the Lord's Prayer "Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven"   Matt. 6:10.