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BTT: Contemplation
So … you’ve just finished reading a book. For the sake of the discussion, we’ll say it was everything a book should be—engaging, entertaining, interesting, thought-provoking. The kind you want to gush over.…
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Re-post 2: Thoughts on Judges
This post was originally published January 9, 2008. It’s one of the posts that were lost in the transition between domain names and blog hosts, but are backed up in a Word file…
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Watching long
Saints before the altar bending Watching long in hope and fear Suddenly the Lord descending In his temple shall appear This verse in “Angels from the Realms of Glory” caught my attention as…
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Celebrating 9 years
Someone had a birthday this week. She requested a sunflower cake. Every cake has a story. This is the cake for which the decorative glaze came out blotchy and runny and trickled all…
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The Willoughbys
Their father, an impatient and irascible man, went to work at a bank each day, carrying a briefcase and an umbrella even if it was not raining. Their mother, who was indolent and…
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Intuition
Sometimes a passage just has to be shared. That’s how I feel about this one, from a book I’m reading by Barbara Brown Taylor. She is describing her and her husband’s decision to…
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Twelve Kinds of Ice
Snuggle up under blankets for this one, because it’s bound to make you COLD. As its title promises, it’s all about ice. But ice is magical in Ellen Bryan Obed’s descriptive, nostalgic book…
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Peace on earth
My husband is working long hours these days. Last night he worked from 8 in the morning till 11:30 at night. As a small business owner, his job is feast or famine. This…
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Re-post 1: Rereading Samson
During Advent, I’m going to be writing fewer new posts and re-posting some old ones from my earliest days as a blogger. There were many posts that didn’t make it into this blog…
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Vanishing Privacy
I heard this report the other night while I was making dinner. It’s about Facebook changing its privacy policy (again) and users’ discomfort about it (again). The article is worth reading, but what…