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Daring to Follow
I just tried an experiment on Facebook to see what might happen. I didn’t originally intend to make this experiment the topic of a blog post, but the results were so interesting I just had to share them with y’all.… Continue reading
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Doing Love
Please pause for a moment and pity poor Joan. Joan – for those of you who don’t know – is my spouse. And since we just celebrated our 20th anniversary on Cinco de Mayo, she has occupied that status for… Continue reading
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“Nope. Not you.”
Rejection hurts. “Don’t take it personally,” they say. But sometimes personally is the only way you can take it. It’s like the time I was cut from the eighth-grade basketball team. The first three practices were the tryouts. The day after… Continue reading
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You Belong
Three doors down from the house I grew up in lived a family named the Thompsons. There was Mr. Thompson, Mrs. Thompson (that was back in the time when kids didn’t know adults’ first names) and their three sons. If… Continue reading
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Storm Shield
One of my favorite apps to pull up on my phone is an app called “Storm Shield.” It is a weather radar app that allows me to see CURRENT weather radar as well as a view of what the weather… Continue reading
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The Superhero Next Door
I see the next big superhero movie is about to hit the multiplexes near us very soon. “I see” as in, “I had my eyes open and somehow did not miss one of the 4,862 recent airings of the trailer.”… Continue reading
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S is for Serve
(This post is the fourth in a series. Recently, my mentor/counselor/friend suggested I create an acrostic from the letters of my name as a way of claiming my God-given identity.) I hear it when we sit down to eat at… Continue reading
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U is for Undaunted
(This post is the second in a series. Recently, my mentor/counselor/friend suggested I create an acrostic from the letters of my name as a way of claiming my God-given identity.) The entire lifetime of Janis Joplin. The whole of the… Continue reading
Russellings of the Spirit 