Category: journey
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Birth
The question he asked was, “Why don’t we know Jesus better?” I swear I heard, “Why are you even here?” Why don’t we know Jesus better? The flight to Israel from Germany was a nice 5-hour ride over mountains, waters, and lands I couldn’t name. Millions of people speaking in tongues not heard much in…
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Time Escapes
Breath in slowly drinking the seconds as they pass. Breath out even slower releasing those hurts that built up. Grace.
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Thoughts on Gardens of Kindness
Yeah, we boarded a plane in our desert land to explore a country green and rainy with red roofed houses. The flight was long. Hours of playing airplane games, watching an airplane movie and a documentary, reading my fantasy novel, and attempting to sleep. And spying my boys as they shared words and ideas with…
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The Breath of God
I watched my uncle’s life escape his body. I watched as his daughter cried and his sisters sighed at the loss of someone they love deeply. His last breath came and went to the aether. His heart stilled like all the relationships with his children, his sisters, his friends. The pallor colour took over his…
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Ornaments, those odd orbs permeating life
Ornaments are temporal. Relationships are eternal. Decorations are material. Souls are immortal. Baubles are breakable. People are redeemable.
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Lament: Joy in the Mourning
A heavy heart is born of a broken relationship, but for the Christ follower the heart gives way to lament and the soul releases tears mingled with joy. The promise of Joy in the Morning. Joy in the Mourning is sure and true just as the Word made flesh. Those moments when my heavy heart…
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Weary Travelers & the Kindness of Strangers
the sojourner has not lodged in the street; I have opened my doors to the traveler Job 31:32 Traveling through space and time interacting with other travelers in their journeys varied and unknown whether for a minute or a lifetime, changes the course of history with every traveler’s path we cross. We, every moment, have…
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The Offense of Christ
In Him we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of sins according to the riches of His grace which He made to abound toward us in all wisdom and prudence. Ephesians 1: 7 – 8 Every morning waiting for the yellow bus to carry me from the apartment complex to the elementary school complex,…
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When the Plague Falls
For as the rain and the snow come down from heaven and do not return there but water the earth, making it bring forth and sprout, giving seed to the sower and bread to the eater, so shall my word be that goes out from my mouth; it shall not return to me empty, but…
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