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For When Your Head is Cut Off
Recalibrating. Taking a deep breadth becoming smaller, but hoping not to retreat so far inward that I’m unable to live free. I feel I’m still trying to find my way back to some sort of stable center. The last time I wrote I had a fair amount of responses all supportive and seemingly filled with…
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Celebrating 250!
My last blog post was my 250th blog post! That’s kind of exciting. This blog since its inception in 2012 has averaged about 25 posts a year. That does not seem like very many to be honest. Some years I had more to say than others. This post will be kind of like a greatest…
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It’s Patient
Patience assumes goodness out of what it waits for. The first descriptor of love in 1 Corinthians 13 is that it is patient. If we were to take a survey asking to give a word to describe love, I don’t know how many of us myself included would lead with patience. But the Scriptures do.…
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Prose: Simple-Hearted
In the spring, it became apparent we had lost each other for quite some time. I had become rote in my ability to disappoint. You had become distant before and after discussion on top of discussion. Together we suffered and our affection caught glaucoma. Nearness and touch gave way to a glance that at times…
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The Awe of Heaven is Mercy
Any chance I have to write or have a conversation to talk about mercy, I take. Mercy is an astounding quality in God. The All Powerful restrains his judgment because of His goodness. God patiently withholds the full measure of punishment in favor of a loyal love for His creation, His friends, His Son’s Bride.…
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21. Trope
1. 5:45 alarm I snooze twice bathroom things find the cleanest pair of pants and least obtrusive shirt grab phones and keys, and leave Drive, work or something to that degree watch the stocks then the clock Leave as soon as possible 2. Teeter between torcher and thanksgiving I have been awful to everyone this…
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Sing with what we Got: Habakkuk 3
What we have in Christ is so much more than what we’ve lost. This might be hard to believe, harder to feel, and sometimes we are not at all able to see it, perhaps even moreso now in this season. Which means now more than ever remembering and hearing what God has done is so…
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18. Dissent
Love used to be stories: Knights win princesses Cowboys untie damsels Savages capture concubines Exchanges of property and wealth the brokerage of Catherine of Braganza Love was a trade When it was romanticized sometimes it started in the schoolyard or the fields sweethearts and youthful innocence held them like glue sticks The working class and…
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Watching, Waiting, Woes: Habakkuk 2
It might be hard to believe or receive, but one could make the case that prayer is the most effective gift given to humanity to bring about change. Some would rather attribute change to talent, charisma, and strong work ethic, but more often than not, it is the prayers of those in right standing with…
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17. Anesthesia
As you drift off, you will finally lose that weight, you’ve been telling yourself you should do something about. you will forget the trauma and the triumph the lull you feel is a silent lullaby rocking you once, into slumber Your breathing corpse maintains its complexion you will stay beautiful in your absence you might…
The Reconstructed 