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2012-11-20T14:41:41-05:00

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Lavish, Abundant God

Last updated on: November 20, 2012 at 2:41 pm By Susan Cottrell

Our God is an awesomely creative, amazingly abundant, beyond-our-imagination God. This flower is a beautiful, garden variety (ha) flower–just one of thousands of types of flowers. But below is a closeup of one of hundreds of tiny flowers inside the flower. I mean, really. What is the mind that comes up with this? And why?? For delightful discoveries too deep to plumb over the millennia? To show us just a glimpse of who we’re dealing with in this universe? Then there... Read more

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2012-11-16T14:21:35-05:00

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Garbage In, Garbage Putting up its Feet and Turning on the TV

Last updated on: November 16, 2012 at 2:21 pm By Susan Cottrell

Lately, I’ve been taking stock of my eating habits. I’ve always tried to eat somewhat well to maintain health. But lately it’s been more than just eating enough spinach and beets. I’m slowly realizing that even “benign” foods like too much wheat and cheese are settling in and causing me trouble. (Am I going to start talking about stiff joints? Absolutely not.) While never an all-out junk food junkie, I have been quite casual over the years about putting junk... Read more

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2012-11-14T13:06:16-05:00

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Life Beyond the List

Last updated on: November 14, 2012 at 1:06 pm By Susan Cottrell

How are you doing with that to-do list? That infernal list we all have that hangs over our head. The one that tells us we haven’t quite yet measured up. That no matter what you do you fall short. That list of what’s acceptable and what’s not — or how we’re falling short as Christians (reading, praying, serving). Maybe it’s the spouse who is never quite happy with us, the job we can never do quite well enough, or the... Read more

The Real Jesus

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Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil

2012-11-08T10:56:20-05:00

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Mean Streets

Last updated on: November 8, 2012 at 10:56 am By Susan Cottrell

You can find almost anything on the streets of New York, including scams. One is the shell game. A guy stands at a makeshift table with three cups, and he puts a ball under one cup. You pay money to bet that you can follow the ball as he moves that cup around. You follow very closely, and you’re sure you know which cup the ball is under. And you did follow it. But he had replaced the ball by... Read more

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2012-11-06T14:50:47-05:00

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Being Undragoning

Last updated on: November 6, 2012 at 2:50 pm By Susan Cottrell

“There was a boy called Eustace Clarence Scrubb, and he almost deserved it.” So begins C.S. Lewis’ The Voyage of the Dawn Treader. When Eustace discovers he has been turned into a dragon, he is more than dismayed. He tries to peel off the scaly skin, and he does. But he finds another skin underneath. Again he removes it, and again he finds yet another skin. How long will this go on? Yet a third time he scratches off his... Read more

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2012-11-02T11:46:26-05:00

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Just How Vulnerable Are We?

Last updated on: November 2, 2012 at 11:46 am By Susan Cottrell

Four days ago, my daughter Annie’s apartment building in Brooklyn was decimated by Sandy. She was safely at a friend’s, and her stuff was safely in her fourth floor apartment. But her building and the surrounding area may be uninhabitable for quite some time. Two days ago, my daughter Hannah underwent surgery to repair her torn ACL. Surgery is always a risk, especially with general anesthesia, so I was relieved that everything went beautifully and she is now recuperating at... Read more

2012-10-30T00:04:51-05:00

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Torture: The Heart of Man

Last updated on: October 30, 2012 at 12:04 am By Susan Cottrell

It’s Halloween. Time for Hannibal Lecter and the guy in the hockey mask from Friday the 13th. Ax murderers. Serial killers. Torturers. Where in the world do these crazies come from? From real life, from real people perpetrating evils against real people. I don’t like to admit the depth of man’s depravity. I’d prefer it weren’t so. I visited a torture exhibit in California—a brutal study of man’s inhumanity to man. Hanging a victim upside down and slowly sawing him... Read more

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2012-10-25T15:32:36-05:00

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It’s Here, It’s Here!

Last updated on: October 25, 2012 at 3:32 pm By Susan Cottrell

Just a quick word to all my blog followers… the new book is in! It’s here, it’s here. Yea! You can order it just by clicking on the photo of the book. Thanks to everyone! “From a sea of parenting advice emerges How Not to Lose Your Teen, a breakthrough, intelligent look at parents and teens. Intimate and relatable, Susan shows parents how to decrease their teens’ dependence on them and increase their dependence on Christ. You will be relieved... Read more

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2012-10-18T15:50:38-05:00

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Disappearing Sin

Last updated on: October 18, 2012 at 3:50 pm By Susan Cottrell

We have valet trash where we live. I’m never lived anywhere that you just put your trash outside the door and it disappears! How easy is that? This magic happens three days a week, and I had just put the trash out when I said to Rob, “I love how the trash just disappears. We put it out and it’s gone!” He said, “It’s the same way with our sin. It just disappears.” Hm, didn’t think of that! Psalm 103:12... Read more

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2012-10-16T00:19:15-05:00

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Get to Know Me!

Last updated on: October 16, 2012 at 12:19 am By Susan Cottrell

“Before you knew Me, you expressed your longing for Me in hurtful ways. You were ever so vulnerable…” Jesus Calling by Sarah Young Oh my gosh, how true this is. Like an infant who screams to be fed, we seek out many ways to meet our own needs… even after we come to Him, if we are not abiding in Him. Jesus has been exposing the depth of my own hurtful ways — my self-effort, self-focus, selfishness. Oh Lord, help... Read more

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