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Continue reading →: End of the day (very brief) thoughts: The stomach flu, Nuclear war and writing
I have about ten tabs open on my laptop for places to submit articles in the coming days. I submitted one today to Desiring God. We shall see. I feel a little like that woman who touched Jesus in the crowds of people pressing against him. She probably thought, “There’s…
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Continue reading →: Plans and dreams for 2018
The sun is setting and the air is thick with a smokey haze. Probably from people burning who aren’t supposed to be. I’m sitting out here in the cool, watching my teenage sons and their neighborhood friends chase each other around in the yard. The daylight hours of 2018 fade…
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Continue reading →: Reflections on 2017 and resolves for 2018
The last three days of 2017 will be mostly spent at the hospital where I work. So if not now, I won’t have much of a chance to reflect on 2017 or make plans for 2018 before it’s here. Today I went to the gym after waking up late (7:30…
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Continue reading →: Christmas Day 2017 thoughts
(Virgin Mary and Eve Crayon & pencil drawing by Sr Grace Remington, OCSO © 2005, Sisters of the Mississippi Abbey.) Today started off with dog poop on the floor. Not exactly the picturesque Christmas morning. Ugh. But the good news is, it got better from there. We didn’t visit with family,…
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Continue reading →: The real, not so glamorous, Christmas story
On a night (or maybe it was day), in Roman occupied ancient Israel, a young, Jewish woman writhed, and cried as the excruciating pains of labor gripped her body and tore her flesh. And there, where animals in the ancient world feed, a vernix and blood covered baby boy,…
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Continue reading →: Isaiah, I believe your report
(image credit) Isaiah, I Believe Your Report by Sheila Dougal O God of Isaiah! I believe your report! You cut me from the Rock. You planted in me the Word. You made me your child because you became the Servant. My transgressions pierced You. My sins crushed You. One of…
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Continue reading →: 4 Ways to Unwrap the Gift of Waiting on God
There’s a lot of waiting on God in the Bible. Joseph’s waits in prison, wrongly accused. Israel waits in captivity, suffering for her idolatry. Roman occupied Jerusalem waits for the Messiah after centuries of hearing nothing from God. And we wait for Christ’s return while we sow the seed of…
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Continue reading →: Some good things in a hard few days
The last couple days have been not my better ones. Probably the best part of them was the hour I spent on the floor smiling and making funny noises with 1 year olds in the church nursery. It’s the most smiling I’ve done in the last 48 hours. Some days…
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Continue reading →: The difference between submitting to authority and leaning on authority
(photo credit) “In that day the remnant of Israel and the survivors of the house of Jacob will no more lean on him who struck them, but will lean on the Lord, the Holy One of Israel, in truth. -Isaiah 10:20.” I’ve been reading through Isaiah with the #IsaiahChristmas community…
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Continue reading →: Just keep reading
(Image credit: Paul Gauguin, Te Tamari No Atua (Nativity),1896) *Before I begin, you should really go to that image credit link and read about this painting of the Nativity.* I’m not a Bible scholar. I really enjoy reading and studying the Bible, but I don’t have any formal education in the…
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