But it is the LORD’s purpose that prevails.

2008 ends tomorrow, and I’m crawling across the finish line. Too many goals.  Too many obligations.  Too many interests and hobbies.  Too many, too much…too tired. As early as junior high, my teachers warned me: don’t spread yourself too thin.  You can’t do it all, be in every club, serve in every office, play on [...]

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More than a feeling

It’s not a mere story, but the ultimate history-changing event — the point of everything.

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Bringing back belief

Like most mainline congregations, my Methodist church has experienced a steady decline in active membership over the last few decades.  Recently, I served on a committee to address issues of church health and growth.  Our task was to define a compelling vision for our congregation by identifying “what a disciple from our congregation should look [...]

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Inertia

Confounded Concerned Confused Conflicted Heart and soul repressed by mind Alive and aloof Selfless and selfish Lucid and lugheaded Visionary and visionless Here is the temporary, there is the eternal…maybe I have a choice. Where is courage?

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To Him which is Yes

i thank You God for most this amazing day — e.e. cummings

i thank You God for most this amazing
day:for the leaping greenly spirits of trees
and a blue true dream of sky;and for everything
wich is natural which is infinite which is yes

(i who have died am alive again today,
and this is the sun’s birthday;this is the birth
day of life and love and wings:and of the gay
great happening illimitably earth)

how should tasting touching hearing seeing
breathing any-lifted from the no
of all nothing-human merely being
doubt unimaginable You?

(now the ears of my ears awake and
now the eyes of my eyes are opened)

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