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Eli And The Gratitude Box
This story is dedicated to my nephew, Eli. Eli groggily woke up, pulling his arm from behind his head. He had slept well and was excited to tell his mother about what…
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Thoughts On Darkness and Justice
There was darkness over the land, but no one seemed to notice. There was the perishing of the innocent everywhere, but few paid any mind. The face of cruelty revealed itself…
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Effigy (Galatians 2:20)
(This is a republishing of my very first post. It deals with the battle to believe in the Lord despite a heart drowning in an ocean of apathy and doubt.) I’m finally…
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The Fists Of Rebellion
I will not abide fearful Of Your lack of approval Or even if the sincerity Of my thoughts of You Are unbecoming to both of us. I will not be led…
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Thoughts on Psalm 107
Psalm 107: 10-16 (10) Such as sit in darkness and in the shadow of death, being bound in affliction and iron; (11) Because they rebelled against the words of God, and contemned the…
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The Façade
What’s behind the façade? I’m too afraid to show You, to invite You to look behind my eyes and into the depths of my heart lest You become contaminated by the muck…
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The Graduation of The Little Sun
(My oldest niece, Hailey, recently graduated from high school and asked me to speak at the ceremony. In honor of her graduation, I am sharing my speech.) Isaiah 42:16: And I will…
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The Weight Of Questioning
Why do we question everything but the questions? What right do we have to second-guess God’s ways or motivations for how and when He chooses to move? Is He the master of…
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Another Dissatisfied Day
Another Dissatisfied Day: Thoughts on Complacency and Indifference There is something about the combination of complacency and loneliness that silences a man. This silence is not a relative of solitude, for in solitude…
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A New Year’s Choice
I will break the mirror of my past And burn the regrets with the fires of hope. (“…but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto…