Answered prayers

Sometimes God answers my prayers, and I don’t even realize it – or at least I don’t remember that I had asked people to pray for us. The first week of March was like that. Wonderful Blacknall Memorial Presbyterian Church in Durham, NC asks us for prayer requests every month. Here’s what I wrote at…

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Humans write things.

People write things. All kinds of things: newspaper articles, shopping lists, poetry, stories, love letters, homework assignments, even blog posts. It’s amazing, really. Writing is an invention of the last 5,000 years, but The World’s Writing Systems catalogs an astonishing 292 writing systems, 162 of them in active use. (For a similar list with more…

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