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September 4, 2024

Grief: A Brief Description

Grief is like a cougarBig and strong and hungryBut so quiet and stealthyYou don’t see it comingYou don’t even hearThe snap of a downed branchOr the rustle of fallen leavesUntil it’s too lateIt appears without warningOn the beautiful trail of lifeRight in front of youThere...

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June 3, 2023

All Things New

Today I have two things to share: Dreaming of Justice & Mercy I have a new column on Patheos.com that is titled Dreaming of Justice & Mercy. It only has one article so far, but I plan to add one or two a week, focusing...

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April 19, 2023

I’m Still Here

I’ve been a bit absent from this blog of late. I only posted three times in 2022 and this is my first post of 2023. Where have I been? Why haven’t I posted? Well, I’ve been busy writing things for other publications, writing my monthly...

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April 8, 2020

Appreciating Solitude

I shared this thought on Facebook this morning, and since I hadn’t yet posted my Lent post for today I decided I would share it here also. Before the current pandemic, I had started rereading “Brave New World.” I truly love dystopian literature. Not sure...

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March 25, 2020

Surviving or Thriving

I was reposting old posts for Lent, and I will continue that plan tomorrow, but today I thought I’d do something a little different. Like much of the country, I’ve been working from home for a little over a week now. It’s part of our...

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February 25, 2020

Sharing for Lent

In years past, I have written a poem a day for Lent. It started one year when I felt like I’d given up so much that year and so when someone asked what I was going to give up for Lent, I just couldn’t give...

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February 11, 2019

Preoccupied

You may have noticed that I haven’t posted much so far in 2019. In fact, I only posted 3 times in January and not at all yet in February. Or maybe you don’t notice such things, but I have. It’s not that I haven’t done...

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September 25, 2018

Happy Anniversary to Me!

Today is the ninth anniversary of the start of this blog. I began on a whim and it’s grown into so much more. I had grand plans of writing a post, waxing poetic about the joys and heartaches of blogging, but there simply wasn’t time....

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November 24, 2017

Doubt Lies

I had a great idea for a blog post, and then another, and another. Did I write them down? No. Instead I listened to the voice in my head that said they weren’t worth writing. That voice is talking to me right now, this very...

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