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January 4
Day 296: Refreshed Meaning and Purpose for Today And so it is. We all return to what we knew as normal. The holiday season has passed. Now, it's just winter. And darkness. And work. And darkness. Christmas and New Year's passed quietly at our house. We did get five days to be with our children […]
December 24
Day 285: Father's Blessings As I finished up reading Genesis today, chapters 46-50, it seems to end with a lot of blessing going on. A father blessing his sons. I guess back then, a father's blessings carried some weight. Almost like those blessings turned out to be self-fulfilling prophecies. It makes sense that any son […]
December 23
Day 284: Promises Fulfilled Genesis 43-45 tells us the story of Joseph revealing his identity to his brothers; the same brothers who had sold him into slavery in Egypt in the first place. It's a sweet story. But not without some intrigue. Joseph pulls some sleight of hand moves on his brothers, involving money and […]
December 22
Day 283: What Comes Later Joseph's experience (Genesis 41), in some ways mirrors our own. Where former experiences inform what comes later. Joseph was sold into Egyptian slavery, by his brothers who resented him. At the slave market he was purchased by a court official named Potiphar. As we recall, it all went really well […]