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This is good

Still in keeping with the theme this week of truly loving the people around us, in particular the people we go to church with based on my blog post, I found another blog entry that hits the nail right on … Continue reading

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Driving the thought home

My chapter this morning in Andrew Murray’s With Christ in the School of Prayer was about forgiveness and love. Our relationships with our fellow man are important to the effectiveness of our prayer. Then I found this quote over at … Continue reading

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To be known

It has been a great Christmas, with time spent with so much of the family. I’ve been thinking about what it means to know these people. Family and friends. The pastor made a remark during the sermon yesterday about how … Continue reading

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On friendship

Friendship is a good thing. Friendship is a hard thing. It can be easy and shallow and wide and life is just always fun. But if you do it right, it gets messy and you don’t always say the right … Continue reading

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Remembering Hawaii

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Fun in the sun

Tuesday night was the history/dinner cruise along the coast of Kona down to the Captain Cook memorial. The history was interesting, the food was ok, the weather was beautiful, and the sunset was fantastic! All street lights in Kona are … Continue reading

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Life is good…

… hanging out in Hawaii. We are having a great time. Saturday night we got checked in, unpacked, groceries put away, and into bed by 9pm local time. Not bad if you ignore that it was 3am east coast time … Continue reading

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Oy, what a day

I feel like I’m having a bad day. I know it’s PMS and that knowledge hasn’t helped much. Usually my PMS demon is the voices telling me how wrong and stupid I am. I am grateful I’m not actually having … Continue reading

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Some thoughts

I was reading a book today (great book, check back 10/5 for the review!) and it referred to a poem by Max Ehrman called Desiderata. Here is the portion quoted: Beyond a wholesome discipline, be gentle with yourself. You are … Continue reading

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Cycling for a cause

Wow – I just looked at my blog posts and it looks like all I’ve been doing for the past month is read. Really – that’s just what I’ve posted on my blog. I’ve been plenty busy doing other things. … Continue reading

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