How Nature Teaches Us About God

“What does depend mean?” My daughter looked up from her reading practice page. I paused before launching into a group of fumbled words, stopping myself each time I accidentally used the word in question.

This is a familiar scene in our home with small children. Each new day offers a new word or idea my husband and I must try to communicate. Some days go better than others. Throughout the years of questions, I’ve latched onto the helpful phrase, “Here, I’ll use it in a sentence.”

I do this because sometimes the definitions we learn don’t make complete sense until we see them played out in real life. This is true of regular old vocabulary, and it can also be true of words of Scripture.

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