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Looking for fall in all the Wrong Places

We got ahead of ourselves this year.   Last week, we headed north from Sedona up through Oak Creek Canyon and didn’t see one trace of autumn!   It’s always a pretty drive through the canyon and I hope I never take beautiful Sedona for granted. I found a lovely red tree to photograph in the mountain town of Flagstaff. We stopped at IHOP for a bite to eat.   I’ve  had a hankering for the newest thing on their menu…red velvet pancakes! Ma and Pa sitting on a bench at IHOP! Flagstaff is a very liberal college town with a huge used bookstore   that we like to visit.   I carried in my box of used Christian books for trade, but when I checked out, I was surprised not one book in my box was accepted.   I was told that either my books were too outdated or there wasn’t a market for them.   I asked the clerk “You have a large Christian section which seems very popular.”   “Yes” was how the liberal clerk replied.   This all is fishy to me

How Do I Get Justice?

I never meet anyone who does not need mercy.   On the other hand, I never meet anyone who feels like it is a piece of cake to forgive.   I think the reason why forgiveness is such a popular topic is because we need it and we need to give it .   I stumbled across a website that targets forgiveness.   I’m linking up today to Find Your Voice, Make a Difference. "Yes, hurt people do hurt people. But what's equally true is free people free people. And becoming free starts with being able to fully trust the loving care of God despite what we have possibly been through in our past." -- Pete Wilson I love this quote because it leaves me with a choice.   Am I going to stay hurt and hurt or am I going to go deeper into being free and free others?   I reinforced my determination to seek deeper freedom this week when I watched John Paul Jackson’s new program, Dreams and Mysteries.   He taught exclusively about justice and how passionate God is to extend it to us