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Channel: Prayer – Northern Reflections–glimpses of gold by Margaret L. Been
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Pray for Japan!

  I am weeping over tragic events of recent hours.  Although I’m not normally in favor of our current president’s politics or policies, I felt a deep kinship with him yesterday when he met the press...

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Praise God for the “normal” things . . .

. . . waking in the morning to the sound of much-needed rain, sharing a breakfast at our local “good old boy” restaurant, stopping at the library and leaving with 2 heavy sacks of books, celebrating...

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Glimpses of Heaven

How to Long for Heaven? How to long for Heaven When Earth is moist with Spring And in the swamp The peepers’ anthems ring? What Rapture Without that rapture of returning geese, And season on season...

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Prayers

  “Lord, make me an instrument of your peace. Where there is hatred, let me sow love. Where there is injury, pardon. Where there is doubt, faith. Where there is despair, hope. Where there is darkness,...

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Asking for prayer . . .

” . . . there should be no schism in the body, but the members should have the same care for one another.  And if one member suffers, all the members suffer with it; or if one member is honored, all...

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“They also serve . . . .”

A few weeks ago a kindred spirited friend, Shari—who loves many of the English poets whom I love—mentioned Milton’s sonnet On His Blindness.  I responded with a whopping “YES!”  I hadn’t read that...

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Between euphoria and sorrow . . .

I haven’t updated this page for over a month, and I think that’s the longest absence I’ve had since beginning Northern Reflections in Autumn of 2008.  Even after surgery and during hospital sojourns...

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Yes, you can go home again!

Years ago, for a class at the University of Wisconsin, I read a poignant novel titled YOU CAN’T GO HOME AGAIN, by Thomas Wolfe.  Employing a cliché, “I beg to differ” with that deceased American...

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The “Midnight Clear . . . .”

    I can only smile when I think of an incredibly wonderful classic for all ages—HOW THE GRINCH STOLE CHRISTMAS, by Doctor Seuss.  For the uninitiated, here is how the story went:  the Grinch stole...

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“VOICES IN THE NIGHT”

I found the above gem (pictured on top of the greatest book of all!) in our up north home where we recently vacationed for ten days.  Our northern home is the only place where I never take books,...

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Piano Musings, Recollections, and Resolution . . . .

In a good week I have four or five of them:  piano days.  I never sit down to play without thinking of childhood.  How pleased my mother would be with this daughter who, when young, preferred to...

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Piano Musings, Recollections, and Resolution . . . .

In a good week I have four or five of them:  piano days.  I never sit down to play without thinking of childhood.  How pleased my mother would be with this daughter who, when young, preferred to...

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Piano Musings, Recollections, and Resolution . . . .

In a good week I have four or five of them:  piano days.  I never sit down to play without thinking of childhood.  How pleased my mother would be with this daughter who, when young, preferred to...

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As the clouds grow thicker . . .

“But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control.  Against such there is no law.”  Galatians 5:22-23 Have you ever witnessed...

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Ten Righteous Men

“If My people, which are called by My Name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek My face, and turn from their wicked ways, then will I hear from Heaven, and will forgive their sins, and will...

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It’s All about LIFE!

  Now more than ever before, we need to focus on LIFE.  As a FOX NEWS follower, I pray constantly to refuse letting the news depress or stress me!  Much of the news is so horrible, that it simply must...

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Home!

Since my last entry I had thought the next one would be more about the winter quiet.  But in recent days, something so beautiful has happened that I simply have to write about it.  A thirteen year old...

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“Unplanned”

Today’s blog entry is indeed unplanned.  I had “planned” a tremendously timely and vital Gospel message—which I hope and plan to post soon.  (Before Resurrection Day!) But this morning I opened my...

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