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Am I Weeping with the Savior for Our Groaning World?

March 16, 2021
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| Categories: Coaching Yourself, Questions, Suffering, Uncategorized

I sat in the cold, blank hospital room and talked with my sweet friends, an elderly couple.  I had visited them before in their warm, cozy home. The man had chronic pain since I’d known them, in his back and in his heart.  His heart because he lost his only daughter at a young age in a car accident, maybe over 30 years ago now. My mind wandered, searching for something to talk about as I noted the empty room, comparing it in my mind to the walls in their home cluttered with pictures of their dear, gone daughter. As if…

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When You’re Weary of the World’s Lack of Kindness

August 19, 2017
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| Categories: Encouragement, Grace, Ministry and Serving, Spiritual Growth

SMH

Are you familiar with this acronym for “Shaking My Head”?  “SMH” is an Internet abbreviation trend used for shaking your head to express disappointment.

I don’t often shake my head at people I’m disappointed in. Well…wait…maybe I do that to my kids when they disobey me! I’ve probably used the acronym for it a few times while texting or on social media. Perhaps more often than these, I might have an internal posture of “SMH”.

This past week I was made aware that I had that internal “SMH” posture going.

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The Kind of Death I Long For

March 14, 2015
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| Categories: Encouragement, Ministry and Serving, Spiritual Growth

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Not too far from my house there is a patch of woods that runs along a bluff overlooking the Missouri River.  It’s in a place that is quite special to me.  To get there you have to enter a cemetery.  I grew up not far from this cemetery, so going there is like revisiting my childhood.  My siblings and I used to ride our bikes through it as kids.  Once in a while, intrigued by the antiquity of them,  we would stop to look at the graves.

Once inside…

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