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Smells and Whistles

by Cheryl · In: Blog, Transformation, Writing · on Dec 14, 2012

Something smelled horrible as I started the treadmill at the Dan Abraham Healthy Living Center.   Sweat times a thousand!  Was it coming from the carpet?  From the men dripping beside me?   I could hardly stand it! People grimaced as they walked by.  What was it? One staff member hovered nearby, sniffing.  What? Had someone reported it?  Alert!  Bad smell in the back corner!  Check it out! My imagination went faster than my running shoes ~ until the truth hit me with a gasp.  No!!  It couldn’t be! Ever so inconspicuously, I dropped my nose to my sleeve and inhaled.  Then …

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Naked Shame Reversed

by Cheryl · In: Blog, Encouragement · on Apr 22, 2010

One day when I was a kid, I saw a mother at the mall accidentally drop her baby. Strange, how these precise moments of horror permanently press themselves in our brains. I’ve never seen anyone actually step on a baby, but I’ve seen the next closest thing: someone step on grace. Like an innocent, valuable, vulnerable baby, the gift of God’s grace was both painful and costly; but we step on it whenever we sin. Why do such a thing? For the same reason many deny Christ:  selfishness. The pull of sin is great.  To accept Truth means to submit …

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