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R.I.P.

R.I.P – ‘rest in peace’ is a declaration of death, but what if it becomes a statement, a bold stance for life. With a child in hospice, another facing chronic pain & disability and my dad battling …

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Tis the Season

Tis the season to get outside. Don’t wait. Dawdle. Postpone. Summer comes but once a year. When it’s not celebrated and embraced, regrets run deep. On the Sabbath we went outside the city gate to the river, …

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Sleep. It Does a Body Good

Seven weeks in the hospital with my son, Joe, left me wilted and worn. Once home, my fierce commitment to sleep, met stiff resistance against a growing battle with insomnia. The culprit this-time-around? It was not simply …

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Love

Question: Why rest? I have no time for it. It’s an impossible burden that only leaves me feeling guilty. Love. It’s our most important call. It’s hard work. Sometimes it’s the hardest work of our lives, but in the …

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Shipwrecked

How do I change the direction of this ship? I hate that my life feels like a shipwreck. It probably looks like one, too. If there was ever a shipwrecked soul (apart from me), it was Bill W., …

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Questions

March Madness is before us. Much of the madness in our lives is of our own making. It comes from the insidious pull of opportunity. Opportunity knocks and we open the door a few too many times. Stretched thin, …

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P.R.A.Y.

Planned and unplanned, prayer is a purposeful pause in the Presence of God. It changes our lives, and when God sees fit, the lives of others. Kingdom work. At it’s best. On our knees. P.R.A.Y. When and how …

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God Speaks

When God speaks to us through the work of the Holy Spirit, it is both predictable and personal. Predictable: We hear from the Holy Spirit through God’s Word. We have full and free access to the mind and …

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In the name of love

No matter our personality, our upbringing or our recent history we can’t be taken hostage by the demands of this world or even its most desperate needs. We must refuse the chains of guilt and do that …

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“New” Truth

Why are we magnetically drawn to some portions of scripture and repelled by others? I think it has to do with our familiarity and comfortability of the verses before us. Growing up, I was taught that “Remembering the Sabbath” …

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