title: Daily Devotions for Finding Faith Behind Clouds: 365 inspiring stories and more with post-it meditations
author: Sherry Lee Hoppe
description: Dr. Sherry L. Hoppe is a retired university president and former counselor/teacher. She is the author of several self-help books, including two on grief and one on addiction. She is also the co-author of a biography on a civil rights leader and the primary author of a creative non-fiction book about the historic trial of her husband, who was accused of first-degree murder thirty-one years after he killed a man in self-defense.
zlib_text: Palabra Publications
  Revelation &  
  Social Reality
  Learning to Translate  
  What Is Written into Reality
  Paul Lample
  
  Copyright © 2009 by Palabra Publications
  All rights reserved. Published March 2009.
  ISBN 978-1-890101-70-1
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  O thou who longest for spiritual attributes, goodly deeds, and 
  truthful and beneficial words! The outcome of these things is 
  an upraised heaven, an outspread earth, rising suns, gleaming 
  moons, scintillating stars, crystal fountains, flowing rivers, 
  subtle atmospheres, sublime palaces, lofty trees, heavenly fruits, 
  rich harvests, warbling birds, crimson leaves, and perfumed 
  blossoms. Thus I say: “Have mercy, have mercy O my Lord, 
  the All-Merciful, upon my blameworthy attributes, my wicked 
  deeds, my unseemly acts, and my deceitful and injurious 
  words!” For 