A question for you to consider: What’s a big dream you’ve had that remains unfulfilled because some aspect of it intimidates you? For many years one dream of mine has been to attend a national writer’s conference. This is the summer I checked that one off the list. I still remember a summer afternoon as a teenager when I was curled up reading and thinking, “I can do this.” The idea that I could write […]
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Families
All happy families resemble one another; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. (Tolstoy, Anna Karenina) I’m just back from a mini-family reunion with my daughters for a few days. It was wonderful. It started with catching up on family gossip about who’s doing what where and our theories on why. Then we ventured on to several trips down memory lanes and the usual round of favorite family stories. It was like a […]
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A Memory Like an Elephant
[bs_well size=”md”]“Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth and subdue it; and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the air and over every living thing that moves upon the earth.” (Genesis 1:28)[/bs_well] Apparently it is true that elephants never forget. This means when they are separated from their elephant families to entertain us in the circus or zoo they never forget the ones left behind. Apparently elephants […]
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From Generation to Generation
Know therefore that the Lord your God is God, the faithful God who maintains covenant loyalty with those who love him and keep his commandments, to a thousand generations. (Deuteronomy 7:9) Back in 1996 I stood in my kitchen in Ohio telling the Executive Director of the camping organization in Texas that I wanted to apply for the position of Program Director for one of their camps – Lutherhill in LaGrange, TX. I’d taken youth […]
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Happy Easter (After Good Friday of course)
And by that will we have been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once and for all. (Hebrews 10:10) Another Easter is upon us. So I’ve been pondering the “so what” about this annual cycle of Holy Week, culminating with Maundy Thursday, Good Friday, and Easter morning. I have time to ponder such things now that I’m no longer responsible for any of these services. Why do we still do this […]
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