An Enemy Among Us

I realize lately that when I write, I am consistently harping on the reality of busyness and its role in our lives.  This blog is as much journal as anything, a locale I come to occasionally to offer what’s on my heart and mind, and this topic is apparently a consistently weighty one for me.
In [...]

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How Near is the Kingdom?

How much is God on our side?  How much can we trust Him, I mean, to be our comforter and provider?  I often think of it as our being on His side, not He on ours (He is, after all, God!), but when it comes to mercy, we need Him to come to us.  But [...]

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A Principal Certainty

It was in 10th grade Chemistry class that I was first introduced to a not-well-understood phenomena that somehow captured my imagination. We were studying subatomic particles — you know, those electrons and protons and such — and we came upon a principle known as the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle.
This fella, Heisenberg, thought about what it [...]

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Riffraff

Our church sponsors a home in Cambodia that brings in homeless children from the streets and provides for them shelter, education, Christian influence — a home life, essentially. It’s not an orphanage exactly, in that these children are not adopted out to families. This is their family. The “parents” are American missionaries. [...]

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Revealed

Underrepresented. I had sat for some time to find the right word. Everyone else had answered, and so I offered mine last. Looks of confusion and “Hum”s went around the room. I felt it was right, though, and so I stuck with it. We could say nothing more about it. One word, and only one [...]

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Too Close for Comfort

O LORD, our Lord,
how majestic is your name in all the earth!
You have set your glory
above the heavens.When I consider your heavens,
the work of your fingers,
the moon and the stars,
which you have set in place,
what is man that you are mindful of him,
the son of man that you care for him?
-Psalm 8:1, 3-4
Can you imagine [...]

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Welcome Home!

When it’s all said and done, I’ll stand before the Living God and He’ll ask me, “Did we know each other?” When that’s asked of me, I want there to be a glean in His eye, and a widening grin come across his face before we both burst out laughing, He runs to me and [...]

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