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Relationship
(3-minute read) In my early 20s, one of my first bosses, Richard, confided in me over lunch that he was having trouble at home. “I don’t understand my wife. I give her everything, yet she says I don’t love her. She didn’t like where we lived, so I bought her a new house. There was…
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Window Shopping
(3-minute read) When I was first on my own and started dating, it was completely different from when I was in high school. I had a good job and could afford to take a date to a fine-dining restaurant. I quickly realized we were both trying to fit in, and there was a bit of…
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Children
(2-minute read) Before our first child was born, I would not have known what to say if anyone had asked why I wanted children. It never seemed to be the right time financially, and I didn’t know if I could be a good father. When our first child, Debi, was born, everything changed the first…
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I’m Not Alone
(5-minute read) It’s back, and it’s getting worse. Fifteen years ago, I started getting sick, but the doctors, there were a lot of them, couldn’t figure out what was wrong. In May 2011, a doctor told me part of my brain, called the hypothalamus, was failing and there was nothing they could do. He said…
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Conscience
(3-minute read) My introduction to understanding my conscience did not go well. I think I was three years old, and my mother was upset about something I had done. I don’t remember what I did, but in my defense, I remember saying, “You never told me not to do that.” My mother replied, “But you…
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Good Death
(2-minute read) We used to have a dog that absolutely hated to take a bath. In one house where we lived, we had a walk-in shower with a door. I was taking her in to bathe her in the shower, and when she saw the door open, she had put two feet on one side…
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The Game
(3-minute read) Once a month, we have a celebration at our house for a dozen or so family and friends who have had a birthday that month. After lunch, there is the traditional singing of Happy Birthday, in which everyone sings to their own tune using their own words for a couple of minutes of…
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The Conversation
(3-minute read) I am constantly praying to ask the Lord to lead me and draw me closer to him. When he starts the conversation, I very often think that the words are produced by my mind and ignore them. Since I continue asking for the Lord’s help, he usually continues the conversation by sending events.…
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Self-Deception
(7-minute read) The most difficult deception for me to detect is self-deception. In 1970, after only about a year of studying spiritual things, I felt the Lord wanted me to buy a reel-to-reel tape recorder, but I didn’t know why. I had never owned one and knew nothing about them. A man in our Bible…
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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…
Walking the path 