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5 days ago | 
inforum.com | Devlyn Brooks
But then there is also joy, isn’t there? This earthly life has a tendency to weigh on us, doesn't it? After all, the constant media barrage we consume is generally vastly negative. Demonstrations of competing ideological positions. Name-calling. Mistrust. It can eat us up if we let it. And then on the personal side, we suffer heartbreaks and we watch loved ones experience the same.
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6 days ago | 
headlightherald.com | Devlyn Brooks
Finding Faith“There but for the grace of God go I.”That’s the message that ricocheted through my conscience as I stared up at the revolving red and blue lights in the rearview mirror of my pickup. My heavens, the damage I could have done. You know the story. Maybe you’ve done so yourself. My schedule can run a tad to the hectic side most days. And I often find myself running from one appointment to the next. Too much to do in too little time, and all that. I know you feel it too.
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1 week ago | 
inforum.com | Devlyn Brooks
“There but for the grace of God go I.”That’s the message that ricocheted through my conscience as I stared up at the revolving red and blue lights in the rearview mirror of my pickup. My heavens, the damage I could have done. You know the story. Maybe you’ve done so yourself. My schedule can run a tad to the hectic side most days. And I often find myself running from one appointment to the next. Too much to do in too little time, and all that. I know you feel it, too.
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1 week ago | 
headlightherald.com | Devlyn Brooks
Finding FaithOur brother Dustan passed quickly and unexpectedly the day after Palm Sunday this past week, giving new meaning to Good Friday for our family. It seems cosmically cruel as we haven’t even had the time to grieve from losing our brother Drew in December, and three other family members in rapid order the preceding three years. A brother-in-law, Dave; a third brother, Dan; and our mother, Lois, the matriarch of our large family.
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2 weeks ago | 
dl-online.com | Devlyn Brooks
Our brother Dustan passed quickly and unexpectedly the day after Palm Sunday this past week, giving new meaning to Good Friday for our family. It seems cosmically cruel, as we haven’t even had the time to grieve from losing our brother Drew in December and three other family members in rapid order over the preceding three years. A brother-in-law, Dave; a third brother, Dan; and our mother, Lois, the matriarch of our large family. Unbelievably, five significant deaths in just over five years.
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2 weeks ago | 
inforum.com | Devlyn Brooks
Our brother Dustan passed quickly and unexpectedly the day after Palm Sunday this past week, giving new meaning to Good Friday for our family. It seems cosmically cruel, as we haven’t even had the time to grieve from losing our brother Drew in December and three other family members in rapid order over the preceding three years. A brother-in-law, Dave; a third brother, Dan; and our mother, Lois, the matriarch of our large family. Unbelievably, five significant deaths in just over five years.
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3 weeks ago | 
inforum.com | Devlyn Brooks
The importance of Easter to Christians cannot be understated. After all, the festival commemorates the day that Jesus rose from the dead, conquering death and offering eternal salvation to all for all time. But it’s in times like these that I think that the Easter story offers some consolation to those who may not even consider themselves Christian.
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1 month ago | 
hometownsource.com | Devlyn Brooks
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1 month ago | 
postbulletin.com | Devlyn Brooks
This weekend, Christians worldwide will celebrate Palm Sunday, the first of many milestones of Holy Week, the period leading up to Easter and Jesus’ resurrection. This is the Sunday that celebrates Jesus’ triumphal entry into the holy city of Jerusalem, where he would participate in the Jewish festival of Passover. Interestingly, Jesus, the son of God nonetheless, chooses not to march into the holy city atop a mighty war horse, but rather a lowly donkey, which was prophesied in Zechariah 9:9.
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1 month ago | 
inforum.com | Devlyn Brooks
This weekend, Christians worldwide will celebrate Palm Sunday, the first of many milestones of Holy Week, the period leading up to Easter and Jesus’ resurrection. This is the Sunday that celebrates Jesus’ triumphal entry into the holy city of Jerusalem, where he would participate in the Jewish festival of Passover. Interestingly, Jesus, the son of God nonetheless, chooses not to march into the holy city atop a mighty war horse, but rather a lowly donkey, which was prophesied in Zechariah 9:9.
