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    Be still

    I feel like I’m tangled in a mess of details and noise. Gunk and garbage accumulated during the week gives me that much more to do. Deadlines.  Unfinished work. Things to do here.  Clutter to clear up there. Movement is hurried and time seems short....

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    An Attitude of Acceptance

    After reading this tribute by E. LeBron Fairbanks (Download the PDF here) to Dr. Jerry Lambert, on his retirement from Education Commissioner Church of the Nazarene, titled “AN ATTITUDE OF ACCEPTANCE”, I just had to post it to share. The tribute gave me an opportunity...

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    Love

    1 Corinthians 13 If I speak in the tongues of people and of angels, but have not love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if...

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  • The groan of creation

    The groan of creation

    I’ve been contemplating this for a few weeks now. We know that the whole creation has been groaning as in the pains of childbirth right up to the present time.  – Romans 8:22 Like so many, when I hear the news or think about things...

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  • AM I PREPARED TO BE DISTURBED?

    AM I PREPARED TO BE DISTURBED?

    This is a post by my friend, James Petticrew, blogging on xanga.com.  Enjoy. Almost every evening a ritual plays out in our house. After we have had our evening meal and washed up we generally head for the living room with a cup of coffee...

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