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Continue reading →: Advent meditation: Joy
(That was a sunrise a week or so ago.) Well, it’s 10 O’clock, and everyone is in bed and it’s finally quiet so I can think. I’m trying to stave off some bug that’s decided to give me a dizzy-headache and sore throat in the last hour. Hot tea and…
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Continue reading →: Advent meditation: It’s for freedom that he set us free
For freedom Christ has set us free; stand firm therefore, and do not submit again to a yoke of slavery. …For you were called to freedom, brothers. Only do not use your freedom as an opportunity for the flesh, but through love serve one another. – Galatians 5:1,13 I’ve been…
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Continue reading →: Jesse Tree: Celebrating the God of promises. The God who makes life when all seems as good as dead.
I think it was five years ago now that I started doing a Jesse Tree with my sons. Each year we’ve done it a little differently. This year I gathered some branches my goats had stripped bare of all leaves, stuck them in a large vase and put some lights…
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Continue reading →: Advent meditation: Hope
I’m doing a Bible study through 1 Peter with a neighbor and the verse that has really grabbed me, which I am trying to memorize, is 1 Peter 1:13: Therefore, preparing your minds for action, and being sober-minded, set your hope fully on the grace that will be brought to…
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Continue reading →: Recounting
I will give thanks to the LORD with my whole heart; I will recount all of your wonderful deeds.- Psalm 9:1 (My guy’s current project: a small barn) It’s Thanksgiving eve and the house is asleep. We have a couple of young guests tonight. My friend had surgery today and…
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Continue reading →: Bearing the peculiar mark of majesty
So I’m doing this Bible study with my neighbor. First Peter. We’re at that infamous submission part. I’ve camped out in this book for years. I frequently come back to it because it so directly speaks to me. It bothers me that I’m bothered by the whole subject of submission…
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Continue reading →: Thursday night thoughts
(Ryland did the Crossfit workout with us. Mike, the owner, training him.) I am so sore! All day long I have all kinds of things I want to share here and then the end of the day comes and I’m toast. So, once again I sit down to post something…
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Continue reading →: You should really try this!
So daily life is full and prayer is taking on a much greater importance and dedicated time slot in my life. (Thank God!!) There’s also the dairy-goat life and staying in touch with good friends. This week a neighbor asked me if I’d like to join her weekly for prayer…
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Continue reading →: Meditations on Psalm 61, 62 and 68
Psalm 61 “Hear my cry O God… for you O God have heard…” God hears me. He has heard me. This is quite astounding if I stop and think about it. If I want someone to listen, someone who can make a difference, someone who cares and I actually get…
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Continue reading →: Because I work night shift and my soul is in a night shift and I’m a watchman
When you wake up at 1 pm after working two night shifts you don’t much know what to say or do. But when you sit down to read the news, and you see riots, and genocide, and terror, and then for a split second, you let the reality of the…
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