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Exploring the power of love by Hank Slikker
Feb 16, 2026
"So, when did the arrow strike?" It's a question I sometimes ask couples about their encounter with Cupid. Their response elicits an immediate smile framed within a variety of facial contortions. Almost everyone remembers their "Cupid Moment," when the mystical arrow draws two people together against their will. Like the Tony and Maria in "West Side Story," your arrow may have struck at a party, when one face suddenly arrests another face across the dance floor. Or it may have struck while skiin…
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I wonder. If I pray in the morning for the end of the Israel-Hamas war and for peace of mind and spirit for Daniel who is suffering alone in his room from a stroke, how can God receive and answer my prayers along with the billions of prayers and petitions said throughout the day by others around the world? As C.S. Lewis states, “Our life comes to us moment by moment. One moment disappears before the next moment comes along.” We live in the past, present and future. Unlike us, God lives outside t…
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Jimmy Carter, after a successful term as governor of Georgia, returned to his home in Plains. Instead of resuming full-time peanut farming, he embarked on an unlikely campaign for the presidency of the United States. His journey from “peanut farmer to president” was a quintessential “only in America” story, resonating with an electorate disillusioned by the Watergate scandal. Four years later, Carter’s bid for a second term faced a different fate. His presidency was marred by challenges, startin…