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Thanksgiving Hymn
Post Views = 3428 One of my favorite Thanksgiving hymns is actually a 2-part song. The first part is Praise To God, Immortal Praise, and the second is Lord, Should Rising Whirlwinds. The text was written by Anna Barbauld in 1772. I enjoy singing old songs and thinking about what the composer must have been…
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Belonging
Post Views = 4330 I want to belong. I want to be part of that tight circle that is laughing, sharing, crying, and caring. I want to feel the security of being accepted. I want to be able to say, “Yep, that’s my group. I am one of them.” I want the comfort of knowing…
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Book Review ~ Sight in the Sandstorm
Post Views = 2572 Ann J. Temkin’s book, Sight in the Sandstorm, Jesus in His World and Mine, is part personal memoir and part biblical storytelling. Ann creatively weaves bits of her background growing up as a half-Jewish child into a Catholic nun and a Protestant minister with the story of Jesus and his message…
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What if?
Post Views = 3866 What if… …God is the beginning of all things? …God is here, already, right now? …God’s home is here, among us? …God Spirit is living in each one of us? …the church isn’t God in a building, but God in people? …all light is God’s light? …all truth is God’s truth?…
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When I Grow Old
Post Views = 4084 When I grow old Whenever that I may be For the numbers keep increasing Yet perception keeps amending But when I grow old I want to be Like the man I saw on my morning walk Leaning on his cane as he trimmed the hedge Like the couple I…
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God: To Perform or To Participate
Post Views = 2980Does God want performance or participation? This question has been real to me both in my thoughts and in my living. Are my days to be lived striving to perform for and please the Almighty God? Or is God reaching out toward me asking me to join in, participate in, and be…