Gerald Hochstetler
Gerald's Articles
Mountains and Valleys
I have fought depression all my life. In these valleys or low, low, times of my life, I have begun to see a pattern. I write my best in the valley. I am less critical in the valley. My hope always becomes a hope that hopes in God alone.
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Failing a Test
I messed up. Badly. I feel stupid. The tests that we face in life are not so that God knows who we are; they are so we know who we are.
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Was Prayer the Difference?
I have often wondered why one thief believed and hoped while the other laughed. Why? I wondered if the one might have had a praying mother.
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Sheer Neglect
The enemy of our soul must find it very annoying when we are so immersed in the new life, the born again life, the ever-living life, that we overcome sin by sheer neglect. We are so busy living the God-life that we forget to sin.
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Doubting Thomas
The other day I used the phrase doubting Thomas and referred to myself as such. Im not a follower. I trust nothing without researching. I am not saying that is good, that is just who I am.
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Perspective
We are born and life begins through no choice of our own. As a little child we forgive and forget quickly, but as we get older, the wounds and the cuts just go too deep.
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