Grief

Grief is deeply personal. It is sometimes private. It is always pain-filled. Grief doesn’t have to be experienced alone even though it’s deeply personal. I remember grieving over so many people who have gone on before me. There have been times when death was a welcomed friend. There are other times when death was a…

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Honor The Lord

I grew up learning to “honor my father and mother”. I was reminded that things I did or said brought either honor or shame to my family.  My last name should mean something in the small community where I lived growing up. As I grew up and grew closer to the Lord, I realized that…

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Crushed Soul

This is a hard season of life here on earth for sure. It’s hard to see people in what appears to be their prime of life struggling and suffering. I’ve had way too many friends that have died of COVID and left families behind to try to carry on. I heard a great quote the…

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More Time

Time is probably our most precious commodity. We all have 24 hours in a day, 7 days each week and 52 weeks in each year. I sometimes look back over my life and see places where I wasted valuable time.  The value of time depends a lot on perspective. To the person who just got…

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Final Challenge

Final usually means it’s the last. There are no other exams in the class after the “final exam”. The word final can be connected with the word finish.  When someone finishes something, they put their name on it or at least call it finished. In our lives, we don’t always get to choose how we…

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The End

This pandemic has really made me think of how the ending goes. I’m not necessarily thinking of the end of the pandemic as much as I’m speaking of the end of this life.  My Dad is 26 years older than me and I don’t know how long I will live on this earth.  I don’t…

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