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GLEANINGS from Claudia: The Abiding Life – We Wait

Poised between moments of time we wait again for You You came one time and darkness flinched Your brilliance shining oh, the hope oh, the joy You left but remain in us give me Your eyes to see Your brilliance … Continue reading

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GLEANINGS from Claudia: The Abiding Life – Hannah – Part 1

“Year after year this man went up from his town to worship and sacrifice to the LORD Almighty at Shiloh, where Hophni and Phinehas, the two sons of Eli, were priests of the LORD. Whenever the day came for Elkanah … Continue reading

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GLEANINGS from Claudia: Grief – Sweetbitter

“I have seen the burden God has laid on men. He has made everything beautiful in its time. He has also set eternity in the hearts of men; yet they cannot fathom what God has done from beginning to end.” … Continue reading

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GLEANINGS from Claudia – The Abiding Life: The God Who Sees

I am forever changed by grief, but grief is not the full measure of my life in Christ. “GLEANINGS from Claudia — The Abiding Life” explores this life attached to the One True Vine. “She gave this name to the … Continue reading

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GLEANINGS from Claudia: “Waiting Toward That Day”

“The eye that now sees me will see me no longer; you will look for me, but I will be no more. As a cloud vanishes and is gone, so he who goes down to the grave does not return. … Continue reading

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GLEANINGS from Claudia: Awakened by Sorrow

I sleep only to wake awash in tears Though night lives on Sorrow swells and I swim Sorrow is my atmosphere My dear friend whose brother died She fears him lost forever The father mother sister aunts and uncles Mourning … Continue reading

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GLEANINGS from Claudia: Time and Eternity

“Then, because so many people were coming and going that they did not even have a chance to eat, he said to them, “’Come with me by yourselves to a quiet place and get some rest.’”  Mark 6:31 Time and … Continue reading

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GLEANINGS from Claudia: Waiting

“For the revelation awaits an appointed time; it speaks of the end and will not prove false. Though it linger, wait for it; it will certainly come and will not delay.”  Habakkuk 2:3 Yesterday in church a friend of mine … Continue reading

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