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dominion
‘Howard Freeman (2)’ appears on one of the Firefox browser window tabs and, along with the other seven or so tabs, constitutes a small but growing and ornery press corps at 6:30 this morning. The ‘(2),’ I learn when I click on it, indicates that on Facebook I have a Friend Request waiting (that’s good, [...]
Filed under: aging, bipolar disorder, Christianity, Facebook, family, home life, imago dei, marriage, spirituality, stress, vers libre | 1 Comment
Since I liked the number 17, I scanned the list of sponsors’ names and found the seventeenth: “Ray W.” The list was written in various inks and in pencil on poster board and tacked with thumbnails to the paneled wall over the water fountain. I wrote down Ray W.’s phone number, sat through the hour-long [...]
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Bootless cries
I cried out to God this morning and was surprised to hear not a thunderous response, nor a stern rebuke, nor a gentle cooing, but rather a velvet hush. No, “hush” is too soothing, and “velvet” is too luxuriant. It was more like a Mona-Lisa-smile of a sound. No judgment, one way or the other. [...]
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heartless man
There was a mosquito in my office this evening, and I killed it without a second thought. I saw it doing a lazy air dance in front of me, almost like a drunken kamikaze pilot who’s off course: it was slowly lilting from right to left over my laptop as I prepared a presentation for [...]
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The beginning of joy (slideshow)
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Filed under: Christianity, dreams, faith, heaven, hell, Jesus, music, spirituality | Leave a Comment
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