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In Flower
As I walked through my hospital atrium yesterday morning, I immediately noticed three of my spathyphyllum flowers had been damaged. Someone (that ever nameless individual) had poorly cut two flowers off one plant and s… -
An Umpteenth Second-Chance from Jesus
I’ve once again been speed-bumped in my walk with God. Potholed really. And it hasn’t been “with God” either. I’ve not been reading the Bible or writing in my journal-to-God, haven’t been listening to as many sermons … -
The Computers
My geriatric laptop finally gave up a few weeks ago. One day I was requesting it perform one too many functions and it completely crashed. My father again offered me one of his business desktops...an offer I had repeat… -
A sick ferret and a sad, independent heart.
"Suppose one of our friends should commit something to our keeping, receiving from us every assurance that we would keep it safe, and then should go away and worry over it...as we worry over the things we commit to God..… -
An early "Happy Father's Day."
In response to my Thursday post, Xangan RiverbendPaul copied me on one he had written and has since reposted. As I read about how he spoke of what sort of children we must make to Father God, my mind went off in its own… -
Praying with the Spirit
Having been raised a Pentecostal, I am quite familiar with "speaking in tongues." By this, Pentecostals mean speaking in a language that only God knows, one spoken by the Holy Spirit inside us, through us, directly to G… -
Joy: A neccessity?
"Joy as a category seem[s]...irrelevant. Nice but unessential. Like owning a hot tub. And distant too. The hot tub is in Fiji. Wouldn't it be nice? Ain't going to happen. Life's not really about joy. I've got all… -
Signs from God to make life-decisions
I was talking with my Mom Friday about misinterpreting life-circumstances as being God's voice. We were talking about the housing crisis, and how so many Christians thought that getting their loan approved was God's go-… -
Frayed in the Middle*
I asked God today why it is that we can so readily feel the pain of emotional blows that happened to us ages ago? If we break an arm or suffer a severe burn, the sensation of physical pain fades as the wound heals. Howe… -
I see a dead branch. God sees a tree.
When I look out my bedroom window, I see a dead branch with hundreds of dead twigs. As a horticultural tech, my first impulse is to pull out my pruning shears. Unfortunately, the branch leaves the trunk about 25 feet o…
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