Tag: Love

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Letters to the Lord: Of Blood and Chocolate (the stains of childhood)

Having just celebrated Mother’s Day in the States, I thought I’d share an essay I wrote way back in 1993, long before my first novel was published. But even though the story comes from the early 90s, my reflections about kids and motherhood remain the same, and now I pray the same things for my grandkids.     I’m a real klutz with stains. … Read More Letters to the Lord: Of Blood and Chocolate (the stains of childhood)

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Love the Ones You’re With

“I tell you the truth,” Jesus replied, “no one who has left home or brothers or sisters or mother or father or children or fields for me and the gospel will fail to receive a hundred times as much in this present age (homes, brothers, sisters, mothers, fathers, children and fields–and with them persecutions) and in the age to come, eternal life.” Mark 10:29-30 … Read More Love the Ones You’re With