What’s Ahead

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I'm writing early. Sitting here on the fringes of Monday, I'm looking out onto the new week, the new year that is coming, and I feel a full well of…

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Immanuel

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Here we are, three days before celebrating the coming of our Christ, and there's something burning warm that I want to share with you. If we grasp this word we…

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Filled vs Fraught

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This time of year is always filled, or fraught, with all things friends and family. It can be filled.... with gatherings, and fajitas, and gourmet cheese balls, and aunt Ruth's…

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Syria

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Yesterday, I stood at my kitchen counter and thought about Aleppo as I cut up onions. Dumping slices atop a chuck roast, I glanced outside my window and marveled at…

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Tune

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It was well past her bedtime. She came into my room while I was readying wardrobes for the the next day. When I heard her footsteps and her, "Mommy?"... I…

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Camps

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I used to think that everything and everyone could be neatly nestled into the black and white. For decades I was of the thinking that all things could be divided…

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Underneath

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I set gas to flame and formed a fire this morning in the chimney. It's dancing happy across the room right now. The bedroom hallway behind me is still dark…

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Gripped

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We awoke to a drop in temps today. I have on an actual long sleeve, a fire is burning low and constant in the living room, and I'm sitting square…

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Wordless

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I've had to keep the Clorox close here lately. I'm currently sitting out back, across the yard from a boy, who is feeling quite ill. If I may be so…

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Tonight

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There's something about music that moves me on the inside. It strikes up all kinds of wild inspirations in my mind's eye, calms almost all inner unrest, and sends me…

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