Checked Out

I want to talk about being “checked out” today. By that, I don’t mean the check-out line at Walmart. And I’m not inferring how boy checks out girl, or girl […]

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Are You an Anyone?

I’m an anyone. The Bible mentions me in King Solomon’s prayer of dedication for the temple. “…when an enemy besieges them in any of their cities, whatever disaster or disease […]

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From Devastation to Dessert

Have you ever eaten a grasshopper?  The closest I’ve come to downing one was as a child while fishing at my grandfather’s pond.  I would catch a grasshopper in the […]

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The Grief Door

At first I couldn’t find the door.  For a long time, I was locked inside that dark room of grief, consumed with my loss and thinking of little else.  It […]

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The Truth, Please

“I don’t believe in heaven or hell.  I believe that this life is all there is, and when we die, it’s all over and we turn to dirt.” “You’re free […]

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A Familiar Inner Conversation

“Something doesn’t feel right.  Something is definitely missing.  I don’t understand what is happening right now.  I love my dad and I trust him.  He has always told me the […]

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Thankful and In Love

My first Valentine’s Day with Gene was in 1970.  I was fifteen and he was eighteen.  This Valentine’s marks forty-eight times we have celebrated as each other’s one and only.  […]

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An Important Announcement

“And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose” (Romans 8:28). I apply this verse to my […]

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