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Shrinking Love
The softest heart, the widest embrace, and the deepest expression of love in the world belongs to God. God created the world, gifted life, and declared all he carefully fashioned as good, free to roam, explore, and prosper. Love was flung wide everywhere; from trees to oceans, to mountains, to sparkling night skies, and most…
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Simplicity
Sometimes the simplest of words and lives can speak the deepest truths. Today we remember St. Francis. Gave up wealth for simple service. His prayer has whispered and shouted down the ages….. and when more needed than in our time. Peace Prayer of St. Francis Lord, make me an instrument of your peace:where there is…
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Twixt Cup and Lip
There’s many a slip twixt cup and lip. This polarization between right and left, Christian Nationalism and secular state, and who knows how many other ‘issues’ – is ridiculous. Between the idealism on the left and the idealism on the right is that space ‘twixt cup and lip’ where we live. And in that place…
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Hijacking God 2
Everyone falls short of the glory of God. In other words there is no perfection on earth. Everyone has partial vision of all there is to see. We view life from multiple angles, often distorted, flecked with truth, blind spots abound, gaps in knowledge and perception touch all of jus. We’re in this turmoil and…
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Hijacking God
Sometimes the noise is deafening, the hype overwhelming, and the rhetoric like an avalanche. The most prominent topics pounding the airwaves today are: Charlie Kirk, Israel, Gaza, and the Ukraine. All of massive significance. Let’s tackle Charlie Kirk today and Israel later. When everything is peeled back, issues are invariably stark and exposed. Bottom line,…
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A Blinding Flash
It was a blinding flash. Completely out of the blue, unexpected, the last thing one could imagine. Saul, the young man in the previous blog, who served as a coat hanger for those stoning Stephen, killing him for speaking truth to power. Saul, a sincere spiritual man, a passionate Jew, proud of his traditions and…
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Remembering Stephen
I have never met Stephen. Primarily because he lived over 2,000 years ago in Jerusalem. He was noticed by the first disciples as a man of integrity, and humility. One who preformed powerful healings, ‘filled with the Holy Spirit’. Stephen was among seven appointed by the disciples to serve the poor and to help meet…
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Our Ways, His Ways
The ways of humans have forged deeply furrowed tracks through time and history. One must win, the other must lose. I am righteous and you are not. My ways are justified, yours have no merit. I deserve, you have not earned my rights. God is on my side, you are his enemy. Might is right,…
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