Author: Justin Farley
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Last Day To Download My Short Story For Free
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Just a quick reminder that today is the last day to download my short story, “The Mummy in the Museum”, for free on Amazon. After today, it will be $.99. The story is aimed at a child/ya audience and is “an adventure of a 9 year old child on a school field trip to their…
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The War on Addiction
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Breaking any addiction is hard work. There’s always a period when your body and mind fight back, and you doubt your reasoning for quitting in the first place. I think this is where most people fail. They convince themselves they don’t actually want to quit and go back to the safety of their addiction, listening…
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Dealing With Winter – Learning From Nature
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The temperatures are already putting me in a bad mood, and even though we’ve only had one snowfall, I’d say I’ve had about enough for the year. It is way too early to be already having blistering temperatures in the middle of November in Indiana. I do have a tendency to suffer from SAD (Seasonal…
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Showing the Gospel – Love One Another
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“He [Jesus] laid aside his outer garments, and taking a towel, tied it around his waist. Then he poured water into a basin and began to wash the disciples’ feet and to wipe them with the towel that was wrapped around him…When he had washed their feet and put on his outer garments and resumed…
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The Sailor
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Release me – free to move loosely, like the waters of the river bend. Blow me across the sands of time, like blades of grass in the summer wind. Throw me into the chaos of your order. Tear down these walls of imprisonment. Unchain the thoughts that hold me as a prisoner in a world…
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A Change of Perspective
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Recently, I’ve been reading a book called “He Walks Among Us – Encounters With Christ In A Broken World” by Richard and his wife Renee Stearns, who is the president of World Vision – a Christian humanitarian organization. In it, the couple shares stories of children and families they have encountered in their work, applying the…
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The Winds of Grace and Truth
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God does not lie hidden in churches, does not remain enclosed in a secret tomb that only gets opened once a week. He is the light that penetrates the clouds on a dreary day, the rain the falls down from the heavens, the beauty in the sound of a piano key being struck or the…
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A Light in the Darkness
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When all lights have been extinguished And it seems all stars have faded to black, When all mock your name And this cold world leaves you on your back, When sickness leaves your body limp And you’re unable to make it on your own, When friends turn against you And you feel you’re all alone,…
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Rescue
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We have sailed across the vast sea of love, Sojourning and searching across the endless waters For the ship we’ve been waiting for – And the One to carry us home. At last, I have found you, and you – I , Two shipwrecked sailors, brought together by the hand of the divine. A beacon…
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A Christian Poem About Sin and Temptation
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A Christian poem about how easy it is to be tempted by sin and excuse it, only to then find yourself bound by it.
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The Greatest Spectacle in Town – Poem About the Beauty of Nature At Sunrise
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The Greatest Spectacle in Town – Poem About the Beauty of Nature At Sunrise There’s beauty on the horizon, the cock’s announcing the resounding crow. The wisps of night fade away, replaced by dawn’s early glow. The treetops shake off their early shower, still covered with dew drops from leaf to branch. The birds of…
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Living Happy Now
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It’s no secret that more people are unhappy than ever before. Unhappy with their lives, unhappy with their careers, unhappy with their spouse, and most of all unhappy with themselves. Happiness has become some intangible emotion that we are always reaching for, yet never able to firmly grasp. As soon as you think you have…
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Prayer For Dealing With Feelings of Doubt
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My Lord, why have you not heard my crying?Is my voice not loud enough to reach your ears?I sit in the pool of my own tear drops,drowning in the loneliness of my fears.I yearn for you. I yearn for freedom-caged like some wild beast no matter where I go.But your enemies…they’re free to roam.They walk…
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A.A. Step 2 – The Hope for Recovery
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There’s no point in addressing a problem if you don’t have a solution. But before you even dive into the solution, there’s a force that drives you there- hope. Hope is the fuel to the fire of recovery. The second you lose hope, the solution doesn’t matter anymore because “it’ll never work for me”, “I…
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Walk On
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If the road stretches you, walk on. Sprint, stumble, or crawl but walk on. Don’t look for the exit signs, the mile markers, rest stops, or places to lodge. Fix yourself to the road ahead, not the distractions on the sidelines. Hold your destination firmly in your hands and grip it tight, or else it’ll…
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The Search For God
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Many people want to find God- they just don’t know where to look. They look in churches, in nature, in people, and a vast selection of other avenues. But many still seem to be as far away from God as they were when they first started searching for him. So where is he? Well first…
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The Woman I Used To Know
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I don’t know whether to call you an old love or a new friend. But our memories together are still pulsing through my blood, and my heart feels there are still some loose ends. But I’m no longer blind to the barriers that stand tall between us. I know there must be new seed to…
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