The Afterword

Tag: blessing

  • An Opportunity to Serve Him – 1 Peter 3:8–22

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    Peter
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    In some corners of the worldto follow You is to risk everything—a North Korean labour camp,a Somali beating,a Yemeni home where owning a Bibleis a dangerous act.One in seven of Your peopleknows this intimately. Even here,where streets are safeand speech is free,faith can still feel costly—misunderstood,dismissed,pushed to the edges.And when pressure rises,many of us bend,blend…

  • Blessed are the Mirrors

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    Peter
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    Art holds my sadness,presses it gently into color and form,whispering—this, too, belongs. I trace the lines, carve the shape,and somewhere between the ink and the ache,God meets me. I have been searchingfor a place to set my grief down,for hands that do not rush to fixbut simply say—stay as long as you need. My mother’s…