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Snakes In My Brain
(2-minute read) One morning, my wife stepped into our bedroom closet, turned on the light, and saw a snake on the floor. I was out of town, but she heard voices at the back of our house and ran for help. They got the snake and took it away. A week or two later, I…
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Quiet Please, I’m Trying to Love My Enemies
(3-minute read) Every major religion has some form of “Love your neighbor as yourself.” This wasn’t a big problem because all I had to do was define who my neighbor was. I could get this down to a tiny number. But when I read the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus said, “Love your enemies.” Bummer!…
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Simple Stories
When I first started studying scripture, I noticed that Jesus used simple stories to illustrate what he was trying to say. These stories had their own simple logic that was easy to follow for anyone. For instance, he told of a shepherd who owned 100 sheep, and one wandered off. The shepherd left the 99…
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Unexpected Kindness
(One-minute read) As old as I am, I’m surprised I still find amazing things about the Lord that I’d never noticed. For instance, every major religion has some form of “love for your neighbor as yourself.” How they interpret that meaning varies greatly between religions and even within those religions. In Judaism, during the 1st…
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Stay
(3-minute read) A week ago, our son, Stephen, asked if we would keep his dog, Luna, while he moved to a new apartment. He did an interesting thing. When he dropped off Luna, as he was leaving amongst all of the “be a good girl” comments, he said in a commanding voice, “STAY.” When he…
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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…
Walking the path 