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Secrets
I’ve long said that satan hides in the secrets. His tired game of old is to make us think that no one would ever understand what we are going through, and the only solution for survival is to just keep quiet. Be silent. Stew in the secrets. Embrace defeat quietly, protecting the enemy who has…
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Instantly
I can still hear the whine and clanking of the polaroid film chugging out of the machine. Children of the 70’s, y’all know what I’m talking about. Having just pointed the lens in the right direction, and pushing that button, we hoped what we saw in the view finder would magically appear on this high…
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Buffalo Jump
Along the roadside in nowhere America you see the weirdest things. The largest statue of whatever, the biggest mound of what-not, and a gazillion historical oddities marking man’s creativity through the ages. We’ve seen the largest (at least 20 ft tall) painted Czech egg, multitudes of metal sculptures in grand scale, the Wheat Jesus billboard,…
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Go That Way!
Somewhere around a thousand miles into an endless journey, when you aren’t even a fourth of the way there yet, you just kind of forget about where you are, and how many miles are left. The vehicle rambles down the highway, and your mind goes into cruise control as the miles and sunlight steal away…
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Selah
Gripping the steering wheel, eyeballs glued to the scene revealed through the splotchy windshield, we were rolling onward into unfamiliar territory. Our road climbing ever higher in altitude, weaving around mountains and dipping down into little valleys, we passed the Continental Divide once, then twice, and I think even a third time. In one day.…
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Geography Lesson
“Where the geography of hope meets the geography of reality.” A documentary on Lewis and Clark proclaimed this deep truth as it explained how the explorers were headed across America, trying to find an assumed easy water route from coast to coast. Ah, yes. Just coast along the beautiful waters in our little boat, and…
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A plain old Jesus follower who understands more each day what it means to embrace the grace of God, and glorify Him in the simple things of life.
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