My Body – a temporary temple

As I get older, I realize that my body can’t do what it used to do. I remember my teenage years of being strong doing lots of manual labor. I don’t do as much manual labor as I once did and I usually remember it for about three days as I recover. A few days…

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Stain Removal

I have been known to leave an ink pen in my pocket and then it goes through the washing machine cycle and then the clothes dryer where it spreads the ink to other clothes leaving ink stains all over the place. Recently, my youngest son did the same thing with Lip Balm and it left…

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Sin Cycle

I’m pretty sure someone in the 70’s was on something when they created some of the “clothing styles” that we wore back then. I really didn’t think I would see “bell bottoms” again, but they showed back up a few years ago. There are many things in our culture that are cyclical and Fashion is…

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Enough

I remember hearing about “the straw that broke the camels back” when I was just a kid. The idea being that at some point you’ve reached and/or surpassed the load limit of straw that a camel can carry. This is obviously a idiom phrase that means, “you can only take so much”. I think everyone…

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Follower or Faker

I will confess that I’ve been through periods in my life when my faith was shaken. I struggled to believe everything I said I believed. Thankfully those times are way back in my rear view mirror. They were still pretty intense and scary for me. I am so thankful that the Lord was patient as…

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Confrontation

  Confrontation doesn’t come naturally to me. I’d love to get along great with everyone I know without having to confront them or “call them out”. However, there are times when the only way to change the behavior of someone is to speak into him or her using this tactic of confrontation. It doesn’t have…

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