Category: Personal Reflections
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Dopamine Vs. Jesus: The Struggles of a Recovering Dualist (WordPress Prompt)
How important is spirituality in your life? Very 😀 I happen to have one dwelling in my soul…. Actually not only do I have “a” spirit. I have THE Spirit. My rough draft for this post looked… very different at first. I planned on leaving a rather short answer and leaving it be. My answers…
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Screaming Got Us Into This Mess: Reflections on an Infant Inspired Blog
There’s been a lot of screaming lately… a lot of screaming….. Even I have been tempted to scream. Which reminded me that it was said screaming that inspired this Blog. My first entry was: Why I’m Just a Dad So I would like to circle back around to it. Why? I guess it’s good to…
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The Relationally Messy: The Father’s Definition of Pure and Undefiled
I want to tackle the first part of this passage first: Visiting orphans and widows in their distress. Have you spent any time reflecting on this passage…. To be honest… until recently I hadn’t. Partially, it was because when I came upon this passage I was the one who needed to be visited and my…
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When I’m In His Presence
When I am in the Presence of He who gave me life: I find my peace. When I am in the Presence I write. Whether or not Eric Liddel ever actually said: “When I run I feel God’s pleasure” When I write I feel his pleasure… and when it stops I stop. A week or…
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Story Upon Story
My life is literally a record of story upon story of God meeting me where I am… even when I run away from Him. From the time he pushed my car off the road to prevent me from ruining my life…to the day he told me Jordan was the gal for me. From the day…
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The Father’s Freedom: Emancipation Day Reflections (Repost)
This is technically my post for today… but I wanted to post it early since it was the day of. Nevertheless, I’m not going to post anything else, in hopes that you read this. Thank you for reading🙏
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The Father’s Freedom: Emancipation Day Reflections
“While Independence Day marks the conception of a free nation, Juneteenth is a celebration of the fulfillment of this ideal through the Emancipation Proclamation.” Gov. Tom Wolf (former Governor of Pennsylvania) So…. I was one of those people that didn’t know Juneteenth was a thing…. I wish I had had…but I didn’t. I grew up…
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The Age of the Engaged Dad
This post is a prayer… a prophetic declaration over Dads this Father’s Day. In the movie of the Lord of the Rings: the Dark Lord Sauron sends his army to destroy the city of men. The general of the Orc army makes an interesting (untrue) declaration. “The age of men is over… the age of…
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A Family of Common Community (Acts 2:42 Series)
“They were devoting themselves to the teaching of the emissaries and to fellowship, to breaking bread and to prayers.”Acts 2:42 TLV To fellowship? Some things are easier caught then taught… fellowship is one of them for me. For example? Last week I came home from work earlier than anticipated yesterday. I still had to do…
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