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Here in the Valley of the Shadow of Death. On school Career Day, she sat at the back of the third-grade classroom. Her bright face was framed by two glittery barrettes. Quiet settled around us like a fog, filling up one second, then another. She sat up straight in her desk and almost shouted, My cat died! She looked toward a corner of the room and then back into my eyes. No longer shouting, she said, My grandmother died, too.

The Neighborhood Cafe is a time to get to know your neighbors over coffee at your kitchen table, the best place for starting new friendships and deepening old ones. How to Love Your Marginalized Neighbor.

And the follow up,. And the founder and Executive editor of GraceTable. What if for Lent this year, you gave up something other than chocolate or TV? What if the thing God wants us to give up costs more than what we think we can bear? .

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