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The World Could Use A Little Good News Today

(Gratuitous Labradorian Paper Boy Movie, Uploaded For Your Viewing Pleasure.) In my beginning, there was the newspaper. And it was good. The comic pages were my gateway drug into discovering good newspaper content. My enjoyment of the funnies led me to sampling the horoscope column, and I often checked to see if I’d be having …

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The Auction Block

I wrote these paragraphs years ago, trying to capture a moment in time. It was a moment that I never got to experience. I was participating in a study called “Israel and the Minor Prophets” through a class offered by Bible Study Fellowship International. I was absent the day the lecture on Hosea was presented, …

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Morning Prayer

Like graffiti on the wall of a subway tunnel,  like a hieroglyph on the wall of a cave,  we each make our mark on the Wall of Life. “I was here!”  we cry. Because we WANT it to matter. At the end of the Day, we want it to have mattered. But will it matter? …

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The Cure, Chapter 5: Two Healings

The fifth chapter in the book, The Cure, is called Two Healings, for a reason.  The subject matter of the chapter revolves around forgiveness.  One type of healing – which is actually no healing at all – is the  result of us white-knuckling our way to forgiveness through reciting the right words, but with no true change …

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The Cure, Chapter Four: Two Solutions

It’s taken me a while to figure out what the authors meant by the title of this chapter.  (“What are the two solutions?” I kept asking myself.) I think I know, now, although it wasn’t clear to me initially. (And if I’m wrong, I extend my heartfelt apologies to the authors of The Cure:  John Lynch, Bruce …

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The Blind Spot

  When I was 17, I got my driver’s license. I wasn’t one of those kids who was chomping at the bit to have my freedom, or living for the day when I could finally drive a car. I’m more what you might call “the cautious type”. When I go to the pool, I dip …

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