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Continue reading →: Waiting on God
I’ve decided to join the online #IsaiahChristmas community on Twitter, headed up by Tony Reinke, in an Advent reading through the book of Isaiah this year. Today: Chapter 1 and 2. Maybe it’s the 24 years of praying. Maybe it’s the reading of God’s righteous expose of his peoples crooked…
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Continue reading →: Make Us Peacemakers In a Violent Land
On Sunday morning, while I was singing with hot tears streaming down my face, moved by the conviction that I don’t trust God’s no and longing for Him to help my unbelief, some of my brothers and sisters in this faith were violently plunged into the presence of Jesus amidst…
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Continue reading →: No Bootstraps To Grab
(photo credit) I’ve been sitting in the library for the past couple hours trying hard to answer a discussion question for my online class. Doesn’t seem like a big deal. It’s not. But what is is depression. Depression is a big deal. It’s real. Real as Oregon fog blocking the…
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Continue reading →: Sunday summary
(photo credit) Every Sunday when I get to go to church I leave with something from God’s word pressing on me. Every time. But I don’t always sit down and spend some time chewing on what struck me. Being involved in a community group helps cause every Thursday our group…
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Continue reading →: we need to listen. and shut our mouths.
The other day while driving to my oldest son’s baseball game, this story came on the radio. It’s about the producers memories of going on a tour of The National Great Blacks In Wax Museum in Baltimore, Maryland. She recalls with audible disturbance, the traumatic memory she has from her…
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Continue reading →: something has to change
Something has to change! Let’s do a social experiment. Let’s set a limit on the ability of folks to purchase weapons. Let’s start with a limit of no more than 1 weapon per eligible, background-checked, and vetted (tested for major mental health issues) person. And le’ts completely prohibit the sale…
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Continue reading →: how Christians can be like any other spiritual person and how they can stand out different
James and I spent most of yesterday and this morning in historic Jerome, Arizona. We stayed at the Surgeon’s House, a bed and breakfast run by a very sweet lady named Andrea. The 100 year old Surgeon’s house used to be the headquarters for nurses working for the local…
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Continue reading →: Of fall, pumpkin spice lattes, cool evenings and a Paleo Pumpkin Bread recipe
*Yep, this is the same first three paragraphs of the last post I wrote which turned into a soapbox post about advanced degrees in nursing and nursing competence. I decided that post needed to be on its own regarding that subject. But I didn’t want to waste my love…
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Continue reading →: Nursing: a degree that honors the profession is not the evidence of competence(A Red Cross nurse in France) Today is the last day of my second week in the BSN online program at GCU. Tonight after 14 hours at work I submitted the first collegiate paper I’ve written in 17 years. The assignment: A formal 750-1000 word paper discussing the difference in…
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Continue reading →: a fly by the seat of my pants post on preparation
I was listening to a podcast by HopeWriters today. They were talking about having a set aside writing day. It’s ridiculous that I was so scandalized by the idea, but yeah, a writing day. I would like that. No, I would love that! Seriously an entire day to write. That…
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