Category: Tour Guides and Pilgrims
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I was born in 1974 with a perfectly good set of eyes. They were (and still are) brown like my mother and father’s. I have never had to wear contacts, glasses, or even a Planter’s Peanut style monocle in order to see things near or far. So far, and I take nothing for granted in…
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My grandma (my last living grandparent) who I knew affectionately as Mamaw is now with Jesus. She passed away yesterday. I was her favorite (only) grandson and I always knew that if I ever needed sanctuary from anything or anyone in the world, I could find it at Mamaw’s. My heart is heavy. I will…
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"The lovers of God delight in hyperbole, because we need hyperbole to talk about God. Poets can’t describe Him; scientists can’t quantify Him; the sages state flat out that from the disadvantage points of language and logic, God is a Whopper–yet from the vantage point of love they say this Whopper can be known." David…
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Last night while I was waiting for my coal to get to the desired temperature I practiced my Jedi light-saber techniques under chilly starlight. As I swung the walking stick to and fro, twirling it around my arm, dispelling hypothetical Sith Lords and Orcs with each lethal blow, I had a wave of swash-buckling nostalgia. …
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When I told Anna that my aunt Robin was probably going to die, her brow furrowed darkening her face for a moment. "When…" she asked me a bit alarmed, "…right now?" "We don’t know, Anna. It will probably be soon." How do you explain terms like cancer, chemo, and terminal illness to a five…
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If you’ve been paying attention over the past 6 months or so, you’ve probably noticed that my reflective posts have not been in the vein of My Utmost For His Highest too much lately. In fact I would lump most of these spiritual-leaning type posts in the "why-oh-god-why" category. What can I say; we live…
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Been reading an author from a different "strain" of American Protestantism from my own. The book is called Christianity for the Rest of Us by Diane Butler Bass. It’s sometimes very refreshing to get a different perspective on the Church and where it is headed (even if the views are not drastically different from my…
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Have you found your Calcutta? I think you should. I just listened to this sermon given at Rob Bell’s church, Mars Hill, by Shane Claibourne (author of Irresistible Revolution) and found it thought-provoking, touching, and challenging. He tells a lot of the same stories from his book, but it’s good to hear them again in…
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This is the last installment of the "nouwen on leadership & hope" posts. I have found it helpful to think through these paragraphs in daily chunks. I hope you have benefited from it as well. The only thing I want to point out today was that Christ was putting a LOT of hope in Hope. …
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"Every attempt to attach this hope to visible symptoms in our surroundings becomes a temptation when it prevents us from the realization that promises, not concrete successes, are the basis of Christian leadership. Many ministers, priests and Christian laymen have become disillusioned, bitter and even hostile when years of hard work bear no fruit, when…
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