Reading Time: 3 minutes I have Frederick Buechner to thank for the use of Thee, Thy, and Thou in this prayer. In his collection …
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Reading Time: 5 minutes Carpe diem, seize the day, gets tossed around as if it’s actually good advice. It’s a popular and ancient maxim …
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Reading Time: 5 minutes This is the problem. The blueprints for destruction are uncomplicated. Creation is a complex, beautiful mystery.
Reading Time: 4 minutes Two months after our wedding The Redheaded-Wildflower [my wife Dee Dee] and I ventured into the magnificent mountains I first …
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Reading Time: 5 minutes Gone fifty-five years. He died three days before Father’s Day in 1968. His funeral was the day after. Father’s Day …
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Reading Time: 2 minutes Burst of blue like living flame Searching from wintered stalk. Forlorn whistle calls a name. Lone bluebird becomes a flock. …
Reading Time: 3 minutes Happy New Year. The anonymous author of The Cloud of Unknowing speaks of ordinary grace, the daily presence of God. …
Reading Time: 5 minutes Hope is a dangerous thing. It demands we search the dark corners of life for what appears not to be …
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Reading Time: 2 minutes This week’s Word of Advent is joy. Joy is something all of us have experienced but few of us are …
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Reading Time: 5 minutes In the early 70s Richard Nixon mocked war protesters by throwing up double peace signs and shaking his jowls like …
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