I am living on borrowed time. It’s a truth I don’t often think about, and which hit me as I fought my way home from an unexpectedly long shift in a terrible mood. Have you…
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“But it’s so hard, you knowTo believe on your ownThat you’ll be okayWhen sorrow keeps chasing me down” There is a good thing about being an “artistic soul” who feels acutely the stark fallenness of…
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I feel my heart swell as I listen to the masterful song “From Now On” on the soundtrack to Greatest Showman, and my brain wonders why. Here it is… The song consists almost entirely of…
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I’ve become increasingly aware of an alarming trend of what would best be described as a disdainful and rude attitude toward others in settings where disagreement arises. This is something I see in both my…
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This is a poem I wrote many years ago. Enjoy! — Fulfilling Love O love of all loves, so elusive and spry, My heart longs for that which I cannot espy. A deep hollow…
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Sorry, but I’m not going to write a blog post today. I have too many other things to do. My wife needs me to help and spend time with her, instead of just time beside her…
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“Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen. For by it the people of old received their commendation. By faith we understand that the universe was created by the word of God,…
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Death. It’s unnatural. It’s horrible. It ought to break our hearts. It ought to make us angry. I’ve been thinking about death lately. For many of us the greatest dread we feel is not in…
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Flesh. Meat. Carne. It is a thing we can touch. A thing we can observe. It is a miracle of creation – an almost unfathomably intricate dance of molecules forming proteins, and proteins forming myocytes,…
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Today I’m reliving my semester of random, free, online Old English classes. Though it was many years ago, I still enjoy Old English. It is definitely one of my favorite languages! I’d probably trade it…
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