Life, Friendship, Writing, and Long-COVID
Reading Time: 3 minutes Dealing with long-COVID has forced me to re-recognize how human I am, at least as much as I can admit. …
Healing
Words Wield the Power to Create and Destroy our Lives
Reading Time: 5 minutes I love words. Redeem, discombobulated, aspen, cleave, grace, actually, ravel, revel, truck, maybe, and ubiquitous are a few favorites that …
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A Sunday Psalm of Praise to God Who Gives us Life
Reading Time: 3 minutes This past week I was hunting in the Rockies. Time after time as I hiked the woods, I found myself …
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A Mountain Bike Ride to Remember When God Turns a Life of Ashes to Beautiful Redemption
Reading Time: 4 minutes One of the most memorable mountain bike rides I’ve taken also became a parable about death and new life. Taking …
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The Strange Way I Came to Trust God and How You Can Too
Reading Time: 4 minutes When I was young, my Uncle Simon was the most spiritual man I knew. He talked about God all the …
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Sunday Psalm: A Prayer for those Parched for God’s Overflowing Presence
Reading Time: 3 minutes For most of my life I didn’t drink water the way the experts say you’re supposed to. In summer we …
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How to Have a Healthy, Meaningful Relationship: Treat it as Sacred
Reading Time: 5 minutes When my first daughter was born, I was naively advised by another new father to take my camera and record …
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Sunday Psalm: An Honest Prayer Asking God for Forgiveness, Redemption, and Renewal
Reading Time: 3 minutes Does our division as a world, country, and church stem from the fact that we are afraid to admit our …
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Sunday Psalm: A Prayer for Protection against My(Self) Enemies
Reading Time: 2 minutes An old comic strip called Pogo illustrated a powerful truth. “We have met the enemy and he is us.” When …
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Dreams Dashed? You’re Not Lost. Sometimes the Path is Strange or Difficult
Reading Time: 6 minutes “People who hike sometimes get lost in the wilderness,” wrote the unknown author of the Cloud of Unknowing, a book …
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