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Gentle Pen

There’s nothing like taking a good long look in the mirror to really see the areas you might be lacking in. These last few weeks, I’ve been doing just that in revisiting Galatians 5:22-23. “But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, long-suffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, temperance: against such there is no […]

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Feeling like a million “box”

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ro3dirBlOyw] As I mentioned on the 13th, I had planned on revisiting my study of the fruits of the Spirit for the next nine weeks. As the saying goes, life is what happens when you’re busy making plans. Two days after that blog, I got a phone call from New York. For those of you […]

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Nine in the Afternoon

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yCto3PCn8wo&ob=av2e] Nine is an interesting number. We say we’re on cloud nine and we dress to the nines. A stitch in time saves nine. (Not sure what that one means.) A cat has nine lives. Our solar system has nine planets – I don’t care what the scientists say, I say Pluto still counts. There […]

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Death, Where is thy Sting?

I don’t handle death very well. I know that’s true for most people, but I was one of the fortunate ones whose life was untouched by death for a long time. For forty years, death and I had an understanding – it would leave my loved ones alone and I…well, I guess I really didn’t […]