“You’re not normal.” She had heard that all her life. Her size made her the victim of endless bullying when she was younger.As she was not the most academically inclined they used that as another verbal stick with which to beat her. She wasn’t able to do the hairdressing job she wanted to do because of […]
Read More AbnormalThere are times when I have a dim outlook on the way things are. Take the Pastor-centric perspective on church. So much is expected of an individual far beyond any biblical outline for a role. In some contexts such is the exalted position that it’s almost like they are gods among mere mortals whose diktat […]
Read More Having A DifficultyI am a big fan of conversations. That hasn’t always been the case. For years I preferred guided monologues. By which I mean I would ask someone a question which would trigger them going off on one about something or other. I would then give other prompts and they would carry on their spiel. I […]
Read More Having A ConversationTimes change and so do people. You may not move location, but you certainly move in the dynamic of relationships.There are times when you move so far that you get to a point where you wonder if you have gone too far. It’s not that you’ve gone too far, though, it’s just that you’ve moved […]
Read More When You Never Forget The Good TimesI didn’t make it to the gathering. If I told you how tired I was, it still wouldn’t do justice to how tired I was. After a season of pushing myself the body simply refused to be abused that way again. So I didn’t make it. In another setting at another time that would have […]
Read More The Value of RelationshipsBeing exposed repeatedly to music can reside in the system for years after the first encounter. The music of Keith Green has been in my system for around 20 years. I would not be so presumptuous to say I am an expert on all his material, but his music is still heavily influential to this […]
Read More When There’s LoveThere are cute words in the English language. There is something cute about the word ‘vessels’. You might not think so, but I do and on here that’s all that matters. It’s such a great analogy for the life of a follower of Jesus Christ. We are not our own, but we are made for […]
Read More VesselsIt’s not that difficult, really. You hear enough people saying it, you see someone preach up a storm about it, someone even sings a song with the concept in it and it must be true. You don’t really have the time to check it out for yourself. Over time it sinks in enough for you […]
Read More Assuming The BibleCertain episodes in scripture bug me. They don’t bug me because I don’t understand them. They bug me exactly because I do understand them. Jesus mentions that the world will know we are His followers by the way we love each other. That is to say in as much as people might observe glorious singing, […]
Read More Being With Perfectly Pleasant StrangersA thesaurus might say that another description of ‘tired’ is weary. I can understand why they would do something like that. This blog entry is not to pick a fight with the thesaurus. Be that as it may, I would suggest, from experience, a key difference between the two terms. Tired is something you feel […]
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