Date registered: September 23, 2011
You know how particular foods and events get tied to certain memories and holidays? For some, potato salad, hotdogs and parades say “4th of July Picnic” like nothing else. For others, baking cookies and singing carols says “Christmas” so much better than hotdogs. For me, when I think “Thanksgiving” it really isn’t Thanksgiving without pumpkin …
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I lost an entire year in one caffeinated instant at a coffee shop yesterday afternoon. My good friend, Alan, and I were sharing some java together as a Prelude to a Birthday which commenced at midnight last night and will stretch through the hours of this day until the same time tonight. Not far into …
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I shared a rather fragile moment not long ago with a small group of my colleagues. In our time together I shared a few thoughts about some life experiences that are at one and the same time deeply painful for me, yet very redemptive. I discovered some deep emotion welling up from a place down …
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I’m reading this morning about being thankful. Actually, and to be more precise, I’m reading about being thankful for everything. Okay, so 50% isn’t so bad. I have to say that I have a pretty good handle on the first half of that directive. I’m generally a very thankful person when things are going well …
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I recently ran across this “illustration” on a website that offers tools for communicators; mainly preachers and teachers in the church. The illustration was under the heading “alcohol.” A drunk stopped D. L. Moody on a street one night. He told the famous evangelist, “I am one of your converts.” Moody is said to have …
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We’re in the middle of packing 1 million meals for Feed My Starving Children. Several of us are standing in the sound booth between shifts while Jonny— Jonny-on-the-spot, the master of mix, the technician of transmission, the artisan of audio, the savant of sound, the luminary of lighting is getting ready for the next shift. …
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I’m reading Psalm 8 this morning and thinking about the nearly 30 young people who will affirm their baptisms this weekend. And it occurs to me again that our baptismal promises become our starting point for how we live out our lives as royalty in God’s vast creation. As royalty, we’ve been given responsibility by …
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My collection of journals through the years is going to need a bigger box. The last couple of volumes is labeled “January through June, 2010” and “July through December, 2010.” Here’s my entry for January 1, 2010: “New journal, new page, new entry, new year. As I write, I’m thankful for the year just past …
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The Yellowstone Fire of 1988 remains one of the most dramatic, if not dynamic natural disasters in recent memory. When all was said and done, the statistics told a gut-wrenching story. Consider the outcome: Nearly 1.2 million acres were scorched. 36% of Yellowstone Park’s 2,221,800 acres were burned. 67 structures were destroyed. Estimated property damage …
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I was just chatting with a colleague this morning about a book I picked up yesterday. The book was published in 2000 by John Shelby Spong which, in publishing circles seems now aeons ago. Spong was the Episcopal Bishop of Newark, New Jersey for twenty-four years before his retirement in 2000. The back flap of …
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