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I listened to that catchy tune as I drove around town, quite happy with my week. My life runs on a schedule and this week was full. Full of things I love doing but busy. My attention returns to the future. It is Friday and my calendar says to have fun on Fridays. I’m rejoining…

Psalm 16 reflects on the days that are harder than others where joy is the last thought. This chapter is summarized by, ‘The hope of the faithful, and the Messiah’s victory’. The later inspires the hope of the faithful on a difficult day where it feels more like damage control than living. “Preserve me, O…

Today is another purge day. I’m holding in my hand a wooden bead and a 7″ narrow green ribbon. You are my witnesses that I just put both in the trash. Repurposing is better but who wants my little bits and pieces left over from my life? I know I can’t take it with me…

John 1:29, “The next day he saw Jesus coming toward him, and said, ‘Behold, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world’”! I noticed that, according to John the Baptist, Jesus did not come to look at your list of sins to consider each, mark them against you, and enter a…

There is a self-conscience element to the person who is regularly five minutes early. I do not like to waste another’s time. I think it’s rude. Every person deserves consideration no matter the ‘status’. So what is happening to me? Don’t I care? I do but I’m retired. I was in a class recently and…

During my last travel for missions (or Jesus focus) we spent more time in prayer and worship than is my habit. I have mentioned to many that I returned feeling “cleaned up”. That phrase does not express feeling light after a season of dark. I don’t want to lose that. Yes, we have days and…

I have borrowed the phrase, “Tiny buckets of our minds”, from Chris Anderson who partnered with Joe Tyrpak and Carl Trueman to write the encouraging, “Gospel Meditations for Prayer”. I’ll get to that next but let me first tell you about a sewing competition. I was watching a rerun of Project Runway where the competitors…

I was thrilled when I thought I had slept in until about 8:30 AM & then I lifted my head to see that it was actually 9:30. Hallelujah! I’ve have two good sleeps while recovering from a fourteen hour flight until last night when 3:00 AM felt like a decent time to rise. I grabbed…

I’ve recently written about the woman who snuck up behind Jesus out of desperation. She was unclean from a many-year issue of blood. She is, for me, a model of hope and never giving up. I have been looking to her example for years and you know who I’m talking about. I’m currently reading ‘Gospel…

I imagine that the day after Easter is quite busy for the devil. He knows scripture and that when Jesus comes again he will be cast into hell. The devil has no power over God but he tries to exert power over men and women, boys and girls. He will try to convince people that…