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Quiet Thankfulness
I see I've missed posting another Thursday, but this time I'm giving myself an excuse because I was enjoying a holiday with family and friends. That holiday was Thanksgiving, and I found myself having a nice quiet time. While having that nice quiet time, I felt...
Training Wheels
Most of the time when a kid learns to ride a bicycle, they start with training wheels until they learn how to balance properly, then they don't need them anymore and can do even more while they ride. Sometimes life can be like that. But what happens when you think...
Almost, I Think
Several posts back (Time for a Change and Some Balance Adjustment) I mentioned setting a day to blog once a week. I'm trying to make that day Thursday, but I've missed it a couple times and made up for it by posting twice the next week. I would have liked to have had...
Being a Neighbor
I was teaching the kids at church about the Good Samaritan tonight (Luke 10:25-37), and it made me think of how I and so many others can be in our own lives. A man asked Jesus a question about how to inherit eternal life. Jesus asked him what the Law (the first few...
Avoiding Punishment, or Doing the Right Thing?
Several years ago, I had made some decisions that put me in a toxic friendship, and I was making decisions that were keeping me there. This "friendship" was pulling me away from God and my family. God was telling me to stop, but I let the toxic friend talk me out of...
From Another Perspective
Sometimes I wonder why people do the things they do and why they think the things they think. I can begin to find the answer by trying to perceive the way they perceive. Sometimes simply having a different vantage point or position will help me understand another...