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Als meine Mutter im Hospiz war und sich ihren letzten Tagen auf Erden näherte, berührte mich die aufrichtige Freundlichkeit einer Pflegerin vor Ort. Nachdem sie meine gebrechliche Mutter behutsam aus dem Stuhl gehoben und ins Bett gelegt hatte, streichelte die Pflegerin meiner Mutter über den Kopf, beugte sich über sie und sagte: „Du bist so lieb.“ Dann fragte sie, wie es mir gehe. Ihre Freundlichkeit rührte mich damals zu Tränen und tut es noch heute.
Sell my late mother’s house? That decision burdened my heart after my beloved, widowed mother passed away. Sentiment drove my feelings. Still, my sister and I spent two years cleaning and repairing her empty home, resigned to sell it. This was in 2008, and a global recession left us with no...
Published 11/22/24
On November 22, 1963, US president John F. Kennedy, philosopher and writer Aldous Huxley, and Christian apologist C. S. Lewis all died. Three well-known men with radically different worldviews. Huxley, agnostic, still dabbled in Eastern mysticism. Kennedy held to a humanistic philosophy. And...
Published 11/21/24
Paul had gone to the temple for the Jewish purification ceremony (Acts 21:26). But some agitators who thought he had been teaching against the Law sought to take his life (v. 31). Roman soldiers quickly got involved and arrested Paul, bound him, and carried him from the temple area—with the mob...
Published 11/20/24