Many people have had their loftiest dreams crushed by this heartless life. There are countless books and blogs about how to deal with that kind of trauma. Then some achieve dreams to find they feel…
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A new baby named Knox has come to live among my family, and his grinning eyes have taught me a valuable lesson. As I lay exhausted but sleepless after a long night shift, looking for…
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Life is full of choices. This road sign I jogged past brought with it one aspect of the manly, chivalric life I need to remember. If life’s a journey, right now for me it’s a…
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“When a man desires a thing too much, he at once becomes ill at ease.” Thomas Á Kempis[i] This simple line from one of the Middle Age’s greatest devotional writers rang recently like a clarion…
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It is easy to say we trust God. It’s a basic Christian statement and one we believe in theory. But when faced with day to day living it can be hard to live in practicality.…
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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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“Quae tribuit deus, ante oculos non semper habemus.” “We do not always have before our eyes the things God has bestowed.”[1] his proverb was recorded from a common folk of 11th century Belgium by a…
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Well, today is a day of not working. I don’t just mean that I have the day off, which is fantastic, but the TV isn’t working right, the car isn’t working right, the mini-split isn’t…
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“She gave birth to her first child, a son. She wrapped him snugly in strips of cloth and laid him in a manger, because there was no lodging available for them.” – Luke 2:7 (NLT)…
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The following is a transcript of a live interview I recently had with the Little Dude in My Head on the show “Stumbling Around the Neighborhood in the Obscenely Wee Dark Hours of the Morning…
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