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Laura Sweet

Laura N. Sweet is a wife, mother, grandmother, and former Christian school teacher from Midland, Michigan. She writes devotional material for both adults and children, and her work has appeared in more than a dozen publications.
Devotionals

Not Weary of Doing Good

Read: Galatians 6:1-10 And let us not grow weary of doing good, for in due season we will reap, if we do not give up. (v. 9) When they were

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The Burdens We Carry

Read: Matthew 11:20-30 “For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.” (v. 30) John Bunyan’s classic allegory, The Pilgrim’s Progress, begins with the main character, Christian, and the

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The Burden of the Pharisees

Read: Luke 11:37-54 And he said, “Woe to you lawyers also! For you load people with burdens hard to bear.” (v. 46) In Ecclesiastes and in Psalm 73 we saw

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Asaph’s Epiphany

Read: Psalm 73:15-28 . . . until I went into the sanctuary of God; then I discerned their end. (v. 17) As a young mother, I overextended myself with different

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A Troubling Comparison

Read: Psalm 73:1-14 For I was envious of the arrogant when I saw the prosperity of the wicked. (v. 3) One of my favorite old sayings is “he can’t see

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What We Can’t Control

Read: Ecclesiastes 9:1-12 The righteous and the wise and their deeds are in the hand of God. (v. 1) Three years ago, we came back from our August camping trip

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Work, Wisdom, and Weariness

Read: Ecclesiastes 2:9-20 Then I considered all that my hands had done . . . and behold, all was vanity and a striving after wind. (v. 11) My gardening article

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A Picture of Weariness

Read: Ecclesiastes 1:1-11 All things are full of weariness; a man cannot utter it. (v. 8) The Oxford English Dictionary defines weariness as “extreme tiredness; fatigue; reluctance to see or

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The God of the Weary

Read: Isaiah 40:25-31 He gives strength to the weary and increases the power of the weak. (v. 29 NIV) What hinders believers the most in our walk with God? Is

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