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Do Feelings Have Value?
My wife, Jo, is experimenting with a series of paintings, trying to create a feeling without being abstract. She originally had a Pelican in the painting, but it didn’t have the right feeling. So, she changed it to the Pelican-ish bird, which doesn’t actually exist in nature. In her quest to be used by the…
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Genuine
(2-minute read) I discovered early in my work career that I needed to motivate myself. Often, I would decide something I wanted to do differently but just get caught up in the day’s routine and forget about the change I wanted to make. I started writing little notes and leaving them for myself. I’ve discovered…
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For Him
When she is alone, my wife loves to dance before the Lord as a type of worship. She’s had no formal training and would not sell many tickets in our natural world. In the world that really matters, the Kingdom of God, which is far greater and more expansive than we can even dream of…
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57 Years
My wife and I were married 57 years ago today. Thank you, Lord, for giving me the right one to spend my life with on this earth.
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Obedience
(3-minute read) I asked God, “Lord, how much obedience do you want?” It took a while, but when the answer came, it was more involved than just complete, absolute, and total. When I was a kid, my father expected obedience. In his case, it was complete, absolute, and total obedience. But it only covered what…
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Baby Bird
(2-minute read) Only the baby bird is fed in the nest. All the rest must leave the nest and search for the provision. I was 25 years old when I had a salvation experience with the Lord. I knew a few Bible stories, but other than that, I really didn’t know anything. I knew the…
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Dreams
(3-minute read) Where do my dreams come from? I don’t mean the ones when I’m sleeping but the dreams I have when I’m wide awake. After my sophomore year of high school, I asked my parents if I could attend art school during the summer break. There was something about art that always drew me.…
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Permission to be Wonderful
(4-minute read) When I was in high school, my parents got a call from the school wanting to see them. They insisted that my mother and father attend the meeting and that I should not attend. I took that as a bad sign. When my parents returned home, my father came to my room and…
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Priorities
(2-minute read) I was having coffee with a friend and noticed he didn’t stir it when he put cream into his coffee. He just sat there and looked at it. “Do you need a spoon,” I said, offering my unused teaspoon. “No, I like to watch the cream move in the coffee and see the…
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Laugh and Believe
(3 minute read) “Don’t drop that mirror; we can’t afford seven years of bad luck,” my mother said as she laughed. As a child, I learned that there was a long list of things that some people thought brought bad luck. My mother would point them out, and then we would laugh as if it…
Walking the path 