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I got a good laugh out of this. Yesterday, driving around doing errands, I was trying to turn onto a busy street that was backed up due to traffic. I looked over at the car closest to me, a delivery vehicle for a local florist. Santa Claus was driving the car! I saw him, he…
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advent: n. the coming or arrival, especially of something extremely important I was hopeful for a lot of things this Christmas. Things like: no airports or life-changing decisions. Some space and routine, a sense of home. The chance to focus attention on Christ and his gift to the world rather than my own problems–and a…
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Eight years old? Eight years old!?! Wow. I told Anna she couldn’t turn eight because that would mean I’m getting older. First it’s eight, then nine, ten, eleven; before you know it they’re going away to college or overseas to be a missionary. You got to nip this thing in the bud or it snowballs…
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I was living in denial, but I eventually was forced to face the facts: this family can’t own pets. The guinea pig experiment started out so well, it looked like it might just work. For a while… Two fuzzballs in a wooden pet cabinet on the back porch. The girls did the feeding, cleaning, and…
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…just makes us stranger. Stronger. I mean, stronger. Right, sure. That’s the ticket. Last week our kitchen sink got backed up. I thought something was up with our garbage disposal, but after some tests, it quickly became apparent that this was a problem deeper in the pipes of this decades-old apartment building. Of course it…
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Life is a made up of a long chain of events. Like a thousand miles of Christmas lights strung across the branches of our lives, one decision leads to the next which leads to the next and the next, ad infinitum. On my Walk to work this morning I was contemplating how I got here.…
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I didn’t think it was possible, but I have a new favorite by Donald Miller… A Million Miles In A Thousand Years Read it in a little over a week. Parts of it resonated so strongly with me I had to physically put the book down for a few minutes and take a deep breath.…
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What an amazing performance! It was such a mesmerizing show. I was thinking about how different this show was from the one I saw at a dingy college bar in Lexington, KY over 10 years ago. At that show, Karin (the lead vocalist) berated some of the audience members for their rude manners–as they were…
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Tomorrow: In the morning, Sarah’s last soccer game, in the afternoon, brewing a batch of beer with some guys from church…and then, in the evening… Going with my wife to see one of my all-time favorite musical groups, Over the Rhine at The Triple Door in Seattle. This week has really made up for last…
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