Intimacy with God is a One-Size-Fits-All

Intimacy with God is a One-Size-Fits-All

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A little more than four years ago, my husband and I separated due to sin in my husband’s life. I soon found out was there was quite a lot in my own and it was primarily due to my shallow intimacy with God. It is my default to try to play god in my life and in...
Plucking the Gray-Fruit (and Dealing with our Sinful Nature)

Plucking the Gray-Fruit (and Dealing with our Sinful Nature)

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I’m 52. I don’t look 52, or so I’m told, but my hair is slowly surrendering to the inevitable. And other than a single “wild” episode of highlights, I’ve never colored it. So when gray hairs started presenting themselves front and center, I viciously tweezed them out....
Tattoos and Taming the Tongue

Tattoos and Taming the Tongue

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I believe that most kids should be institutionalized from ages 11-14 since they so readily display Dissociative Identity Disorder (multiple personalities). Either that or they’re victims of an alien body snatching conspiracy to bring down our entire civilization one...
A Fish ’n’ Loaf Faith

A Fish ’n’ Loaf Faith

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I can be such a twit. I imagine Jesus shaking his head and sighing deeply over me just like he did with the Pharisees and even his own disciples (Mark 8:11-21). They just didn’t get it. About 15 years ago when my son was first diagnosed with autism, we heard about a...
Snow Globe 2: Seeing the Big Picture

Snow Globe 2: Seeing the Big Picture

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Snow globes. Their magic lies in our objective view of their finite and encapsulated world. We have a hard time imagining living inside that tiny world and yet we do it every day when we view this world as the end-all, be-all of life. We are specks on a speck in a...
Who Will Inherit My Treasure?

Who Will Inherit My Treasure?

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I have seen a squirrel run up a tree backwards. I have seen the pale blue smoke of dirtbikes hanging in the morning mist. I have seen mailmen without a smile. I have seen ants heft a crumb, heaving in unison. I have seen a dead friend in a casket. I have seen puppies...

“Table for Two” Sneak Preview

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Here’s a few clips from the HD-DVD of “Table for Two” from the 2013 Florida Discipleship Conference.   “Tell Me the Truth”  Maria Calviat as Rachel Willis               “I’m Sorry”...