I thought this might be of interest to any of you particularly interested in my trip to Kenya. The current countdown is nine days. That scares me a bit just to think about as I’m not ready to go. Blessedly, there is no school for students next week so I won’t be subbing and will […]
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I really liked Francis De Sales view that you can have unity with God without visions but you cannot have unity without action. The text called it a grounded mysticism, a term I appreciated. A friend posted a question on facebook last night asking whether the gospel is what you believe or what you do.
I went out tonight and celebrated my birthday with friends after tap dancing. A friend I ran into asked if they were family, and I said yes, they were, they are my tap family, we’ve been together for quite some time. It was so much fun, we had a great time and as it went
Why do we stay in a self-made prison? Why do we stay in a place that shuts out life from our souls? Why do we hold grudges? Don’t we understand that the chains we hold for someone else weighs us down in the floods of grief and bitterness? When we hold grudges, we see the
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My friend, Wess, spoke on the last few lines of the Lord’s prayer this morning in church. In discussing forgiveness, he said some thought provoking things that have been in the back of my mind ever since. At one point, he talked about the story of the servant who was forgiven an unimaginably large debt
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This morning I was talking with a friend about how we touch each other’s lives- how we treat each other, the love we show and share, and the time we give. Then this afternoon as I cleaned, I played Clay Aiken’s Christmas album. On the CD is this song, it’s one of my favorites. A
I was talking to a woman at the school I was working at today about a mutual aquaintance. (There are a lot of interconections in the district, especially if you grew up here.) During our conversation, she told me that just being in the same room as this person made her feel good. Even though
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The red carpet extended down the sidewalk, the banners were hung on the walls, the nominees were on the way and the Elsinore Theatre was nearly sold out. Those of us who came to support our friends were cheering as each teacher was interviewed in front of the cameras. Excitement flowed through the air. This
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Are you a sprinkler, a dunker, or the inward fountain? From what I know of all of you, the people reading this span across the whole baptism belief spectrum. Some people believe, not necessarily anyone reading this, that you have to be completely submerged to be saved, some believe as long as you are baptized
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