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Not a self-portrait

 (2 Corinthians 4:7 MSG)  If you only look at us, you might well miss the brightness. We carry this precious Message around in the unadorned clay pots of our ordinary lives. That’s to prevent anyone from confusing God’s incomparable power … Continue reading

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Sometimes our “cares” get in the way.

“It’s not fair.  This isn’t right.  This isn’t the way it was supposed to turn out.  Why did this happen to me?  How can God allow that person to get away with the harm he has done?  Why doesn’t God … Continue reading

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Noooooo…….

He was the new kid on the block, freshly chosen to join the board of our church, a pretty good guy, I had hope for him. And then came his  first board meeting and those words.  “I just hope that … Continue reading

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Living the gospel, finding life

Just a few thoughts from my sticky notes. Live the gospel and you will die and when you die you will live the gospel. We don’t know what life is until we lose what we are grasping for and receive … Continue reading

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“I just wish it would stop raining.”

As Wiebold squished across her sodden living room carpet, thunder rumbled in the distance. She sighed and expressed a sentiment that is likely on most Iowans’ minds. “I just wish it would stop raining.” http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080615/ap_on_re_us/midwest_flooding_77 I don’t know.  It is … Continue reading

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Be strong, be kind. . .

(1 Corinthians 16:13-14 NCV) Be alert. Continue strong in the faith. Have courage, and be strong. (14) Do everything in love. (Ephesians 4:32 NIV) Be kind and compassionate to one another, forgiving each other, just as in Christ God forgave … Continue reading

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Very mixed emotions

I have been driving by a house for the last three days which one of my sons had hoped to buy a couple months ago. Whew!  That is in “whew” we are so glad someone had the bid in ahead … Continue reading

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Surreal, that’s how it seemed.

surreal characterized by fantastic imagery and incongruous juxtapositions; having an oddly dreamlike quality; very strange or dreamlike; bizarre; not actually such; being or seeming fanciful or imaginary; unreal Speaking to my friend on the phone, looking through the glass patio … Continue reading

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Allow yourself to be inspired and don’t let go of it.

Luke 1:26-30 ESV In the sixth month the angel Gabriel was sent from God to a city of Galilee named Nazareth, (27) to a virgin betrothed to a man whose name was Joseph, of the house of David. And the … Continue reading

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“Love has the final move.” Chris Rice

From “The Final Move” on “Amusing” album It was love that set this fragile planet rolling Tilting at our perfect twenty-three Molecules and men infused with holy Finding our way around the galaxy And Paradise has up and flown away … Continue reading

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