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. …
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A Love Poem about You: Sacred Relationships
Reading Time: 2 minutes Burst of blue like living flame Searching from wintered stalk. Forlorn whistle calls a name. Lone bluebird becomes a flock. …
Life Without Hope is Deadly. How Do You Find and Hold onto Hidden Hope?
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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Words of advent: Advent Psalm: A Prayer to Glimpse and Capture God’s Joy
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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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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Sunday Psalm: May God Remember our Forgotten Sacrifices that We May Live More Sacrificially
Reading Time: 3 minutes Reading Psalm 20 I noticed this beautiful phrase. “May God remember all your sacrifices and accept your burnt offerings.” As …
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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Five Truths I Learned about God, Life, and Myself in an Aspen Grove
Reading Time: 5 minutes I’m bewitched by aspen trees. Have been for years. They are complex, moody creatures. Their dark eyes are windows into …
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Sunday Psalm: A Prayer for Courage to Season Your Life
Reading Time: 2 minutes Courage is not the absence of fear. We’ve all heard this. It’s easy to define things by what they are …
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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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