Quotes from Richard L. Mabry

If God doesn't use people who've failed, who's left for Him to use?'" ***

She recognized several glass and ceramic mortar and pestle units for grinding substances into a smooth powder. A shiny brass balance scale stood in the center of the shelf, its weights arranged in an orderly row in an open walnut case beside it. At the end of the shelf she spied another small wooden case, open to display a group of metal dies and pegs. She had no idea what that was, but the display was impressive.

There are many of you in this congregation today who've been in a tomb of your own, a dark and forbidding place from which there seemed to be no exit. But God, in His mercy and power, brought you forth into the light. Yet you fear for the future, because you're not certain He can or will do it again.

His unfinished project stared back at Nick from the computer screen, the cursor accusing him with every blink.

Investigate my life, O God, find out everything about me; Cross-examine and test me, get a clear picture of what I'm about; See for yourself whether I've done anything wrong—then guide me on the road to eternal life.

Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right spirit within me.'" Matthew

Investigate my life, O God . . . See for yourself whether I've done anything wrong.