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 š I happen to have one dwelling in my soulā¦. Actually not only do I have āaā spirit. I have THE Spirit. My rough draft for this post lookedā¦ 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
Thereās been a lot of screaming latelyā¦ a lot of screamingā¦.. Even I have been tempted to scream. Which reminded me that it was said screaming that inspired this Blog. My first entry was: Why Iām Just a Dad So I would like to circle back around to it. Why? I guess itās good to…
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The Relationally Messy: The Fatherās 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 passageā¦. To be honestā¦ until recently I hadnāt. 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 Iām 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: āWhen I run I feel Godās pleasureā When I write I feel his pleasureā¦ 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 amā¦ even when I run away from Him. From the time he pushed my car off the road to prevent me from ruining my lifeā¦to the day he told me Jordan was the gal for me. From the day…
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The Fatherās Freedom: Emancipation Day Reflections (Repost)
This is technically my post for todayā¦ but I wanted to post it early since it was the day of. Nevertheless, Iām not going to post anything else, in hopes that you read this. Thank you for readingš
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The Fatherās Freedom: Emancipation Day Reflections
āWhile 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) Soā¦. I was one of those people that didnāt know Juneteenth was a thingā¦. I wish I had hadā¦but I didnāt. I grew up…
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The Age of the Engaged Dad
This post is a prayerā¦ a prophetic declaration over Dads this Fatherās 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. āThe age of men is overā¦ the age of…
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A Family of Common Community (Acts 2:42 Series)
āThey were devoting themselves to the teaching of the emissaries and to fellowship, to breaking bread and to prayers.āāāActsā¬ ā2ā¬:ā42ā¬ āTLVā¬ā¬ To fellowship? Some things are easier caught then taughtā¦ 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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