A Grief Endured … In Reflection

I originally, wrote this some time back while negotiating a particularly bad experience.  I had posted it and subsequently removed it shortly thereafter feeling there was more pain than thought in my words, here.  It certainly captured what I felt and thought at the time however and thus, I kept it feeling I might modify [...]

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2009 Delivers

Much of life often seems fairly innocuous, in terms of significant emotional, intellectual, or spiritual impact.  Daily regiments become mundane and the mechanics of regular processes and events can create much, in the way of complacency and stagnation.  On the other hand … life sometimes might be compared to a rollercoaster, as circumstances develop that can [...]

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Sin Covering Love

I know, I know … I’m a broken record.  I am simply, swimming these days, in thoughts and impressions of the truth of sin-covering-love.
1 Peter 4:8 (NIV) — “Above all, love each other deeply, because love covers over a multitude of sins.”
So many people are dying to have this love extended to them.  Many of them [...]

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Returning To An Upright Position

Over the years, I’ve flown on many different types of aircraft.  All sizes of commercial aircraft, a few small privately owned airplanes, and many different military airplanes and helicopters.  I was once, the sole passenger on a C5 Galaxy, the largest aircraft in the U.S. military, when it came to Central America to retrieve me.
I [...]

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All You Need … Is All We Need

The Beatles sang it … but I’m afraid the writing credits belong to Paul of Tarsus.  I can’t escape it.  It pops up, at virtually every moment of thoughtful consideration, these days.  It burns like a block of phosphorus with any genuine meditation.  How simply, it rests as truth, unshakable and without equal; and yet, [...]

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