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James 1:12
12Blessed is the man who endures temptation, for when he has been approved, he will receive the crown of life, which the Lord promised to those who love him.
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In Cast Away, Chuck Noland survives four years alone on a Pacific island. He loses everything—fiancée, career, civilization. He nearly loses his mind. But he survives, is rescued, and gives a speech to coworkers: "I knew, somehow, that I had to keep breathing.
In 1851, John Clifford discovered an old Bible in a London bookshop with a handwritten note tucked inside its cover. The note read: "Last year...
In 2015, a small congregation in Portland voted to become a sanctuary church for undocumented families. The decision cost them. Within six months, they lost...
Picture a farmer who planted seed in good ground. He watered it, spoke life over it, and declared that a harvest was coming. Weeks passed....
In the writings of Teresa of Avila, she describes seasons when prayer feels like drawing water from a deep well with a broken bucket —...
In the early days of westward expansion, surveyors drove iron benchmarks deep into bedrock across the American frontier. Floods washed away bridges. Tornados leveled towns....
In 1731, a devastating fire swept through Ashburnham House in London, threatening the Cotton library — one of the most important collections of biblical manuscripts...
In the practice of centering prayer, there comes a moment the mystics knew well — when the sacred word dissolves, distractions swarm like locusts, and...
In 2018, a community garden collective in East Baltimore planted raised beds on a vacant lot surrounded by crumbling row houses. The city had forgotten...
There is a season in the life of prayer that John of the Cross called *la noche oscura* — the dark night of the soul....
In a coastal village in Louisiana, a Vietnamese Catholic grandmother named Bà Lan spent thirty years repairing fishing nets after Hurricane Katrina destroyed her community....
In the fourth century, a young monk traveled deep into the Egyptian desert to seek counsel from Abba Poemen. "Father," he said, "I have sat...
In the writings of John of the Cross, there is a passage about the soul entering what he calls the "dark night" — a season...
In her memoir *Searching for Sunday*, Rachel Held Evans described the exhausting work of staying in faith communities that didn't want her there — showing...