How does your morning begin? After I’ve hit the snooze button once or twice, I glance out a bedroom window. If the sun is up, I admire its light filtering through one of our tree’s big green leaves. The sight reminds me the Light of the World wants to shine through my life, and He invites me to walk with Him through a new day of adventures. The thoughts prompt memories of the times my family rounded the last curve in the long country driveway to spend the day with my parents. Daddy, who’d been standing on the porch to…
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Six Ways to Cling to God
On a recent walk I noticed a little vine that held fast to the surface it claimed as its home—the trunk of an immense pine tree. The graceful, serrated leaves contributed to the vine’s delicate appearance and created contrast against the furrowed gray-brown bark. How did the vine cling to the rough tree covering? Maybe it wasn’t as delicate as I’d supposed. Upon further investigation, I noticed the vine’s stem had sprouted bunches of tiny tendrils that grasped the bark like the spikes on hiking boots grip mountain surfaces. The collection of tendrils tethered the vine to the pine…