Tag: beauty
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Everyone Has the Right to Fly?
The girls in my family (like most US families) really liked musicals. As an avowed disinterested musical dad, it is my burden to have to listen to songs from those musicals on repeat in the car. Sometimes love is pain. The other day we were listening to one of the songs from Wicked which has…
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Reflect
As we near the end of the summer, I wondered at a certain word: Reflect. In particular the context of this question came from me challenging my staff from Psalm 90:12: “So teach us to number our days that we may get a heart of wisdom.” It was a reminder to consider the great opportunities…
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Scars and Shorelines
What does revival look like in a believer’s life? At a recent youth camp, the idea was posed to us of “returning to the way things used to be” with regard to our faith. That statement made me pause…Is that a true goal? Should we desire to return to some previous form of faith and…
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ImAIgo
Ever get creeped out by AI photos? As these dumb image generators and LLMs are pumping out content that spews onto my social media feeds, I find myself with that uneasy feeling of distaste when I see the photos. As you can tell by the picture above (generated by AI), there are just a few…
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Saturated
This past weekend I had a short moment to take a quick hike in Robber’s Cave State Park in OK. It was not much of a hike, so much as a jaunt and a moment for a breath. It had been torrentially raining so the entire way down I could hear rivulets turning into mini…
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Mine Has a Red Door
A few weeks ago, I had the privilege of attending a benefit dinner for an organization near us that creates enterprises and community for adults with disability in a Christian context. It is a beautiful organization that currently hosts an independent living environment for adults with disability. As a parent of a child with Down…
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These Heights are here without us
Several times in my life I’ve been on a hike out in the high places in the world, and stopped to wonder at the beauty. There’s something heart-achingly beautiful about the rocky places that wedge against the sky. What compounds this beauty is the remoteness of it. Many of these places are seen by less…
And yet, and yet... 