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The Short Stories And Bible Studies
The Short Stories And Bible Studies
of Kathy Kearney
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Spiritual Stories A - K
ABRAHAM TIMES
I have Abraham times.
A year ago I suffered an autoimmune collapse that resulted in swollen joints, (shoulders, elbows, wrists, fingers), accompanied by severe atrophy of my leg and arm muscles. The pain was constant and depressing.
We had just moved to Arizona the week before it hit and down I went like a ton of bricks. No medication worked, no method of therapy reached it. I sat on the couch, a pain-filled sack of potatoes and wept in fear that my life was over; convinced that long years of pain and uselessness stretched before me.
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A GODLY HERITAGE
The importance of establishing a godly heritage by contrasting two very different men
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BELIEVE THE COMPASS
One of my favorite writers is Louise Dickenson Rich. Louise and her family lived deep in the Maine woods. So deep that you brought in supplies twice a year. If you miscalculated and ran out of canned milk, you made biscuits with water, ate your cereal dry, and hoped for an early thaw. But Louise, her husband, and two children thrived in their forest primeval. A trip to the "outside" as she called town only hastened her desire to return to her beloved forest depths.
One night a terrible storm awakened Louise and her family. She and her husband gathered the kids into their room where they huddled all night listening as the forest crashed madly about them. They fully expected to be crushed under a roof-crushing pine before daylight.
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EASTER
Edith Burns was a wonderful Christian who lived in San Antonio, Texas. She was the patient of doctor by the name of Will Phillips. Dr. Phillips was a gentle doctor who saw patients as people.
His favorite patient was Edith Burns. One morning he went to his office with a heavy heart and it was because of Edith Burns. When he walked into that waiting room, there sat Edith with her big black Bible in her lap earnestly talking to a young mother sitting beside her.
Edith Burns had a habit of introducing herself in this way: "Hello, my name is Edith Burns. Do you believe in Easter?"
I CAN'T TAKE IT ANYMORE!
I remember fear. The kind that wakes you in the night gloating over its devastation of yesterday while threatening worse for tomorrow.
I remember lying there shaking, jerky breaths forcing its way past a tight throat. Slipping out of bed, I would kneel in our den with my Bible, frantically clutching at verses from the Psalms, pleading with God to deliver me from this overwhelming as one hopeless day gave way to another.
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IN EVERYTHING?
I Thessalonians 5:18 gives this rather terse bit of advice. No, not advice, but a command. “In everything give thanks: for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you.”
Pleasant injunction. I get $5 from an unexpected source for an emergency, and my grateful heart rushes to do this verse’s bidding. All is smooth and “the medicine goes down.”
Up until a certain incident in my life, I never had a scrap of trouble with that verse—until five years ago.
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IN GOING WE ARE HEALED
Scripture: II Corinthians 4
Agoraphobia: fear of the marketplace. I was afraid of anyplace away from the safety and security of home. This unrelenting terror, had stalked into my life exacting a terrible dominion, and for more than 20 years told me that I would always live in its horrible world without end.
When did it start? I can't say when shyness evolved into this monster of disobedient dimension. My three children never knew of my fear. I never talked about it. I seldom told anyone, and when I did my words were vague and carefully chosen. After all, I didn't want people to think I was crazy.
You see, fear is like the child molester who threatens victims with awful reprisals for telling. Long to share it with someone, and it whispers, "Tell anyone, and I'll become even worse. I'll drive every friend away. I'll make them think that you're bad and crazy, and should be locked up."
