Tag: jesus
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The Thrill of Hope
Ever get bored of Christmas? It can appear in many forms: watching Charlie Brown Christmas Special for the 500th time, going to the same Christmas party every year, singing the same carols over and over again, putting up with Mariah Carey yelling about what she wants for Christmas. We love Christmas, but if we’re being…
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Coffee Circles
Coffee is one of those areas where my pseudo-OCD crosses paths with my trend of laziness. If you’ve seen my office up at the church, you’ll know that I have a set of 7 coffee mugs that I designate for each day of the week. I do this because I like routine, and also if…
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This road was bigger
I never thought it would change. Coming back from roads that I’ve traveled many times before, through Aledo and Fort Worth where I grew up to Arkansas where my dad’s family is from, I felt a strange sense of weight in my heart. In the space of life that I now live in with kids…
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Pine needles are for kids
For Thanksgiving this year, our family stayed out in the woods outside of Arkadelphia, AR. It was a beautiful spot, secluded, quiet, and with a ton of trees. My three year old (like any reasonable three year old) upon seeing the trees and the hills and the lake below, decided he’d take off at a…
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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…
And yet, and yet... 