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Silence (Of G-D)
I spell God “G-D” to make Him seem more a mystery. Like G-D needs more mystery, huh! My possibly imaginary Friend has emerald eyes . . . I think. I don’t know. What do I know. Nothing . . . THAT’s what I know . . . because I’ve not yet stared into my Friend’s…
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Patches
For the record, I’m on my lunch break. This morning in juvenile court, my client social worker was talking with a court administrator, both of them young enough that their combined ages don’t exceed my current age of sixty six years. My social worker was telling the administrator about a fourteen-year-old young man in care…
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Old Friends
Here’s a shout out to Katie Andraski and her quiet husband Bruce, two old friends of ours, me and Karen, who we’ve never actually yet met . . . except in cyberspace. You can meet Katie and Bruce in cyberspace too if you want to at Katie’s blog, Katie Andraski . Katie and Bruce sent…
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“Loser”
WHY would I call myself, “Loser?” Hell, even John Lennon called himself a “Loser,” so why NOT? But THAT’s not the reason I’ve embraced the name “Loser.” This started last week when our former pastor jokingly said to me, “C’mere, Loser,” when he saw me after I’d texted him earlier in the morning that Karen…
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“Come To Me”
So I’m reading this good book a good friend sent me for my birthday a couple of weeks ago. Notice the color? Yeah, I did too. It’s like a sign, right? Anyway . . . the author says that THIS is his favorite of the invitations given by my possibly imaginary Friend, Jesus Christ. “Come…
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Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds
Today in my Bible reading, I read this surreal thing. I must have read it before in the many times that I’ve read the Bible, but I didn’t remember doing so until I noticed it this morning. Most people have either read or, more likely, remember the story from the movie “The Ten Commandments” or…
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Home Boy (& Girl)
At the end of our new Pastor Gene Washburne’s excellent message this morning at Morningside Baptish Church in Yuma, Arizona, Karen and I went forward for membership. Pastor Gene jokingly mentioned that it’s a fairly strenuous process to become a member that few succeed in achieving, to which my beautiful bride of almost forty-three years…
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HALLELUJAH!
Yesterday I confessed that I AM a “Nowhere Man.” Or, at least, I almost am a “Nowhere Man,” because of all the algorithms out there and in here in these damned digital devices that are trying to turn me into nothing more than a consumer of things and precious time. I also broached the topic…
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Nowhere Man
Do you know what an algorithm is? Yeah, me neither. But apparently, they are controlling our minds . . . or trying to. From what I’m told or read, algorithms have been engineered into the very device on which you are reading this post, and they are turning us into extensions of themselves, making us…
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Happily Nostalgic
Is it only nostalgia, I wondered in a text with a friend who also changed churches with her husband back in rural Illinois because she said that they just “wanted church to be church again.” Our friend’s former pastor was preaching what sounded like heresy to our Biblically literate friends who tried to work through…