Enjoy this Devotional by FlourishWriters Student Ruth Gardner Woods Potholes are not supposed to eat shoes, but this one did. It was the most unusual thing. My day was going along like every other school day. I dutifully lined up with all the other second graders preparing to leave the freedom of the playground and mournfully return to the rigors…
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Enjoy this Devotional by FlourishWriters Student Almira Robinson Who knew that twelve simple words from a Sunday school song would save my life on one dark night?  Because I had no white blood count after rounds of intense and grueling high-dose chemotherapy, I was in the hospital in agonizing pain from a severe infection. Doctors put me in a vacant,…
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Enjoy this Devotional by FlourishWriters Student Anna Gibson “Count it all joy,” I mutter under my breath, coaxing Daisy the Labrador out our door onto the early morning lawn. A spring breeze refreshes my face. A mockingbird razzes, foreshadowing trouble ahead.  “Come on, Good Girl, we can do this!” I urge as she pauses to sniff a bush. Have you…
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Enjoy this devotional from FlourishWriters student Rosemary Jones I sifted through the mess sprawled across my floor—Barbies, books, and baby dolls. Quickly, I shoved all my treasured belongings into the small closet by my little white desk. As a six-year-old little girl, I became proficient at rapidly hiding and stuffing my mess into the corners of my closet. I had no…
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Enjoy this devotional from FlourishWriters student Sabrina Parsons “I’m lost.”  I spoke through my sobs. “Where are you?”  “I don’t know! But I’m late, and I’ll never get there at this rate, and everything will be ruined!”  Panic had settled in. I have a problem. I am…let’s call it, “directionally challenged.” Maybe you can relate? Whenever I travel to a new…
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Enjoy this devotional from FlourishWriters student Mandy Farmer  Tears streamed down my face as strangers forced my precious piano out the door and onto a removal truck. The piano was a dear friend giving me release from all the stresses of life. Dragged from parsonage to parsonage, it had been a true instrument of joy. But now, as the truck faded…
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