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Daily Leading Toward Peace

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Dear God of Peace, This morning I watched two neighbors argue over a property line — voices rising, fingers pointing, years of friendship unraveling over eighteen inches of grass. And I thought of the Anabaptist farmers in Lancaster County who,...

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Matthew 5:9

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