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Me:\u00a0 Howdy Prodigal and Shyann!<\/p>\n

Prodigal:\u00a0 I am enjoying my time with Shyann even though she ain’t no bigger than a bar of soap used all day.<\/p>\n

Me:\u00a0 She is small, but being small doesn’t mean you don’t have a big heart.<\/p>\n

Prodigal:\u00a0 I agree!<\/p>\n

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This is from God’s Little Devotional Book for Women<\/p>\n

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A missionary was sailing home on furlough when she heard a cry one night–a cry that is perhaps the most difficult to hear when at sea:\u00a0 “Man overboard!”\u00a0 She arose quickly from her berth, lit the lamp on the bracket in her cabin, and then held the lamp at the window of her cabin in hopes of seeing some sign of life in the murky dark waters outside.<\/p>\n

Seeing nothing she hung the lamp back on its bracket, snuffed it out, and returned to her berth with prayers for the man lost at sea.\u00a0 In the morning, to her surprise she discovered the man had been rescued.\u00a0 Not only that, but she learned it was the flash of her lamp through the porthole that showed those on deck the location of the missing man, who was clinging desperately to a rope still attached to the deck.\u00a0 He was pulled from the cold waters in the nick of time.\u00a0 Such a small deed as shining a lamp at the right time had saved a man’s life.<\/p>\n

It isn’t the size of the deed you do that counts.\u00a0 It’s\u00a0the fact that you do it for good and not for evil, and with a trust that God can take every deed we perform and use it for His purposes, in our lives and in the lives of others.<\/p>\n

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Let us not love merely in theory or in speech but in deed and in truth-in practice and in sincerity.<\/p>\n

1 John 3:18<\/p>\n

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Jennifer Van Allen<\/p>\n

www.theprodigalpig.com<\/p>\n

www.faithincounseling.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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