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Rearview Mirror

As my wife, our two preteens, and I drove home from Chicago in our 1988 Dodge van...
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An Unusual Blessing

Global serving trips are supposed to be good things, and they are, but my last trip didn’t feel that way at first.
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The Story

In J. R. R. Tolkien’s work, The Lord of the Rings; The Two Towers, there comes a time in the tale when two of the protagonists, Frodo Baggins and Samwise Gamgee...
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Et Tu Brute?

Have you ever been betrayed by a close friend? 
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Oh, Brother(s)!

Oh, Brother! This is a versatile idiom that we can use regularly either to express great emotion, annoyance, excitement, or surprise.
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Forgive and… 

The home I grew up in was not always a happy one. Often, it was a harmful one.