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Secrets
Don’t know about you but the drama south of the border is certainly confounding, disturbing, alarming, disappointing, and exhausting. There are not enough fingers to point accusingly or voices to condemn, or rocks to throw in judgement. But if we stop and reflect, there’s a dirty little crop of secrets buried in them there hills.…
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You’ve Gotta Friend
Friendship is a Big Deal! Here’s a classic made famous by James Taylor, written by Carole King during the January 1971 recording sessions for her upcoming album Tapestry. “The song was as close to pure inspiration as I’ve ever experienced” said Carole. “The song wrote itself. It was written by something outside myself, through me.”…
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Where has All the Freedom Gone? Part two
Is it possible for democracy, freedom and faith to be worked out in this world? Let’s continue to wrestle with what it looks like. I know I talk too much 🙂 How many times have we witnessed inspiring platforms, exhilarating promises, real change is on the way!? And then the let down, the watering down,…
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Where Has All the Freedom Gone
We’re living in sad and troubled times. It’s an ugly war out there. You can here the sounds of spades and shovels, hammers and chisels, bricks and mortar. Digging of trenches, building high walls, lobbying verbal grenades and worse. All in the name of freedom? You must be kidding! Freedom and democracy are being assaulted…
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Patience
Impatience is like a weed, a runner stretching every which way across the garden. It’s covered in tiny thorns of irritability and bitter fruit of discontent. It cares not where it grows and left to itself will smother the fern and suffocate the rose. I have these weeds in my garden and the only solution…
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Blessing Be Upon You
I never tire of the many versions of ‘The Blessing’ that have emerged around the world. They remind us of the huge diversity of people, traditions, expressions, cultures, languages, and ethnic backgrounds Jesus has blessed and called His own. They’re a testimony and a call to be the church in the best possible way, to…
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Listen! To Who, what, How?
There are many voices and much chatter out there right now. Opinions, attitudes, reactions, anger, fear, alarm…… are all in the mix. This pandemic has exposed us and our lack of preparedness, our myopic worldviews, our narrow thinking, our party politics, our collective paranoia. But at the same time – our kindness and consideration, our…
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Now What?
The landscape lies barren and smouldering. Not a single statue remains as history is shaken, revised, deep cleaned, detoxified, and neatly folded. The people walk around in masks, or are they muzzles? The pervading culture cancels any who step out of line. Society is increasingly, ignorantly, intolerant. The unspoken collective agreement is so loud it’s…
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