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  • Brooding Over Inconsequential Trivia

    Sometimes I brood over inconsequential trivia. Sometimes I wrestle with big questions, issues, and calling. I cannot lead someone else's tribe. I cannot even throw stones at it or its leaders. I really will not because stones are always reciprocated back and forth and, as they fall, they only build walls. I think we ought…

  • Attitude Opinion Influence – Dialogue in the Public Square

  • Desiderata

    Desiderata: Original Text This is the original text from the book where Desiderata was first published. Go placidly amid the noise and the haste, and remember what peace there may be in silence. As far as possible, without surrender, be on good terms with all persons. Speak your truth quietly and clearly; and listen to others,…

  • The Weak Are Welcome

    “As for the one who is weak in faith, welcome him, but not to quarrel over opinions.” — Romans 14:1, ESV We sometimes pounce on the weak with our own opinions. They are struggling to believe, to find their places in God’s purpose, to discover some definition of themselves in Him, and to understand His calling. Then…

  • Kim Hopper – Love Lifted Me [Live] I was lifting weights one day. I suppose I lifted a bit too much – or for too long — or on top of an injury — or something. No pain, no gain. I know and embrace that. I also know that I can overdo it. There is…

  • “I have seen the Lord” – Mary Magdalene

    Sarah Bernhardt as Mary Magdalene (1887), painting by Alfred Stevens. Oil on canvas, 111.8 cm × 77.3 cm (44 in × 30.4 in). Museum of Fine Arts, Ghent I will get this one thing out of the way: Mary Magdalen did not look like a beautiful blond, 19th century, American actress named Sarah Bernhardt. However,…

  • Feeding 5000 and Water Walking Jesus Present Mark 6 v 30 ff Mark, in his redactor’s comments, observes that the disciples’ hearts were hard and, thus, they were amazed at Jesus’ power and presence. He sites, as a reason for their hardness, as well as a result, that they did not understand the meaning of…

  • Surviving a Cyber Attack

    We learn lessons every time there is a catastrophe or potential catastrophe like this. I say that we learn them, but I mean that we could learn them if we would pay attention, reflect, consider, plan, execute, and anticipate. Lessons we would all acknowledge, but we cannot say we have learned until we implement strategies…

  • The Meaning of the Feeding

    Don’t Throw Jesus Out with the Deconstruction Bathwater Mark, in his redactor’s comments, observes that the disciples’ hearts were hard and, thus, they were amazed at Jesus’ power and presence. He sites, as a reason for their hardness, as well as a result, that they did not understand the meaning of the feeding of the…

  • Happy Are the Forgiven Psalm 32