Category: Life
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Equations
I grew up around math aficionados – a father and brother who were engineers, a sister who was trained as an accountant (also married to a scientist), and my late wife – who was a nurse and was very good with numbers. I was the misfit. I could add, multiply, divide and subtract easily, but when it came…
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Abundantly Available
To the chief Musician for the sons of Korah, A Song upon Alamoth. God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble. Therefore will not we fear, though the earth be removed, and though the mountains be carried into the midst of the sea; Though the waters thereof roar and be troubled,…
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Sacred or Valuable?
Is there a difference between being valuable and being sacred? Cars are valuable but they are not sacred (at least to most people). Diamonds and gold are prized because of the way they hold their value – but they are not sacred. Value is associated with usefulness. A car is valuable to its owner because it…
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Psalm 44: The Power of Story
We have heard with our ears, O God, our fathers have told us, what work thou didst in their days, in the times of old. How thou didst drive out the heathen with thy hand, and plantedst them; how thou didst afflict the people, and cast them out.. . . For I will not trust…
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Living Happy in 2021
How are you doing as we come to the end of 2020? Worn out with lockdown fatigue? Maybe you are enjoying a little relief because you made it to the end of the year in one piece. You may be struggling with some depression – or even PTSD – over what has happened to you, your…
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What is a Birthday?
While celebrating a birthday recently I began to wonder, “What is a birthday?” “What purpose does it serve in my life?” Beyond all the obvious reasons for celebrating, such as affirming our love for the birthday person, giving friends and family a reason to get together to celebrate, and (of course) the cake and ice…
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A Happy Ending
It has been more than three months since my last posting – “Our Love Story” – on Valentine’s Day. That is because the wonderful love story that Wendi and I shared came to a sudden end when she passed away, unexpectedly, on March 7th. In a manner of speaking, my life, and the lives of…
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Our Love Story
It was a warm, pleasant afternoon at my family’s camp. We were on a vacation during the summer between my freshmen and junior year at a Bible institute. The rest of the family had gone to the lake to swim while I stayed up at the cottage to spend some time praying. I had a…
Musings of a Follower 