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Friday, February 16, 2018 • Randy Kilgore • General
Three men and a young boy find themselves in freezing water after their plane crashes in Alaska. The three adult men are strong swimmers, and two of them successfully fight the current and make shore safely. The third one, the father of the young boy, would also have been able to make shore, but he noticed his son was losing ground. Swimming back to him, the father fought hard to save his son, but the current was too much for him with his son in tow. As the two men watched helplessly from shore, they saw the father make his choice: He wrapped his arms around his boy, not wanting him to be alone in the time they had left.
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Friday, February 9, 2018 • Randy Kilgore • General
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Friday, February 2, 2018 • Randy Kilgore • General
It's a phrase I hear repeated about as often in my work as any other, though people seldom say it directly. In a work world that values efficiency and action, that places great emphasis on busyness and productivity, that wrestles to squeeze the most out of every action, one of the byproducts is often loneliness. It's a disease as prevalent in the senior reaches of a firm as it is in the bowels of the operation. It stretches outside the workplace to our families, leaving children feeling this same gnawing emptiness that haunts adults. Always, the sentiment emerges: "I only want to matter to someone."
http://madetomatter.org/apps/articles/default.asp?blogid=4631&view=post&articleid=One-Last-Lesson&link=1&fldKeywords=&fldAuthor=&fldTopic=0
Friday, January 26, 2018 • Randy Kilgore • General
"I looked down to the field where cancer first made its effects known to us just a few short months before. Three of us were raking a field, and Francis was laughing as hard as I ever saw him laugh. As usual, I was the cause of that laughter." Saying goodbye to someone we love is among the hardest, saddest things we do in life. It was my turn, now, to say goodbye to the man who led me to Jesus, and then tought me how to live for Him. But Francis had one more lesson he wanted me to learn before we parted...
http://madetomatter.org/apps/articles/default.asp?blogid=4631&view=post&articleid=Is-Anger-Drowning-Hope&link=1&fldKeywords=&fldAuthor=&fldTopic=0
Friday, January 19, 2018 • Randy Kilgore • General
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Friday, January 12, 2018 • Randy Kilgore • General
We hear a lot of talk in the body of Christ about victorious living.  Christians are taught the myth, on one end of the spectrum, that God wants them to be wealthy, healthy and happy. On the other end of the spectrum, however, Christians are also taught they're supposed to find a way to be happy in the midst of trial; to celebrate in the middle of turmoil. This, too, is a myth. These teachings are incredibly hurtful to Christians struggling to plant one foot in front of the other.
http://madetomatter.org/apps/articles/default.asp?blogid=4631&view=post&articleid=A-Christmas-Miracle-by-the-Mississippi&link=1&fldKeywords=&fldAuthor=&fldTopic=0
Thursday, December 21, 2017 • Randy Kilgore • General
As the barge drifted front and center, a string of Christmas lights flashed on and off, greeting whomever might be looking to the river that chilly December evening.� Even a� barge in the middle of the mighty Mississippi seemed to declare His glory.
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Wednesday, December 13, 2017 • • General
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Thursday, December 7, 2017 • • General
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Wednesday, November 29, 2017 • • General
One day, almost five years into his fight to survive, Dad pulled me aside to lovingly tell me I had become "an angel of death" in his life, and asked me to stop if I could.� He was right, too!
