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Continue reading →: Ecclesiastes and a PandemicI didn’t keep a journal during this pandemic. I wish I had. I find myself scrolling back through my iPhone calendar trying to figure out how many days we’ve been like this. Arizona “reopened” on May 15th. We’re eight days into gyms, restaurants and many retail stores being open for…
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Continue reading →: Conspiracy and 5 Christian Responses When Suspicions RiseWhen you shake a cup, what comes out reveals what’s been in there all along. The global corona virus pandemic has brought out the suspicion, anger and conspiracy theories in many. I’ve been thinking about why so many of us are given to believing or promoting conspiracy theories. Folks who…
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Continue reading →: Learn to restThere comes a time in every mom‘s life when her kids don’t need her to tend to their physical needs anymore. They don’t need her the same way they did when she held them in her lap. A time comes when circumstances are such that you don’t have control. You’re…
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Continue reading →: Christian, don’t miss what Jesus calls you to this weekI hit an emotional low this week. Last week I crashed from the adrenaline of responding to this pandemic in my church, community, family and hospital. This week I’ve cried. A lot. The normal low-level fatigue I live with has become high-level. The irritability that signifies my depression has been…
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Continue reading →: What should we do? Advice from a RN for decision making in a pandemicI’m not a COVID-19 expert. But I have some thoughts as a nurse and a Christian about what should be driving our decisions during this pandemic. I work as a nurse case manager in a local hospital in Sun City. I also serve on staff with my church as…
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Continue reading →: Learning to breath like a Christian during a pandemicHonestly I’m angry. It’s 10 pm and I just made myself shut off my phone. What I read on Twitter tonight has me writhing in anger! I see people loosing their grip on their wealth and spinning the elderly and vulnerable as worthy martyrs on behalf of the American dream.…
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Continue reading →: The Breakup Phase of MotherhoodI’m entering a new phase of parenting. I don’t know what it’s called. But I recently saw a video on a Facebook group for women over 40 that I think may have named it for me. The subtitle of the video from a radio show called Jonsey & Amanda read,…
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Continue reading →: Distracted kids, tired parents, smart phones and what teaching your kids the Bible should really look likeLifeway Resarch group published the results of research they did to see what the contributing factors were in spiritual health among young adults.What they found was that overwhelmingly, kids who regularly read the Bible while growing up are likely to experience a healthy spiritual life with God and the…
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Continue reading →: Christian, you are in ministryTomorrow, people all over the U.S. will go to a local church. I have an opinion about what most of us going to church tomorrow think doing ministry means. I’d guess if you asked the average church attender, who among them is doing the work of the ministry, I…
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Continue reading →: Looking to 2020 and the shalom beyondMy family is making fun of me tonight because I’m watching, for maybe the hundreded-and-eleventieth time, The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring. When people ask me what my favorite of anything is I usually have a hard time picking one thing, but when it comes to…
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