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August 07, 2025

Something Borrowed

** “ I love you; I’m in love with you. You are the love of my life. My every feeling is controlled by the look on your face ” ( Fitz, Scandal ).     I tell you this all the time, but you don’t believe me. I know these are not my own words, but isn’t it enough? I should probably have better boundaries , be less detac…
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August 06, 2025

Solid Foundations

I woke up with this thought in my head: don’t put the cart before the horse. This idiom means don’t do things in the wrong order. I think of it as trying to start at step 20 without having completed steps 1-19.  The dangers of putting the cart before the horse is that you’ll waste time and resources. You’ll have to …
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July 31, 2025

Release

I ran until I felt my ankles burning, and my left calf cramped. The moment it cramped, my leg buckled beneath me and my knee barely missed the thick root jutting out of the ground; the pain of the cramp and the fall brought instant tears.     I was hot all over, sweat trickling down my face. I felt my heartbeat in m…
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July 29, 2025

Collective Cowardice

The price of apathy is to be ruled by evil men.  -Plato ** *  I recently rewatched a Korean Drama called Taxi. In particular, I rewatched the episode where one boy was being viciously and mercilessly bullied. I love the episode because the revenge is satisfying, and I wish that those who have been or are being bullied…
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July 24, 2025

Strengthen Your Brethren

"There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it."   - Edith Wharton ******** The strong among us must awaken the strength in others. There is a strength in each and every person that needs to be awakened, so that life ceases to feel like a toss up, or a game which ha…
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July 22, 2025

Courageous Pursuits

All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them."   - Walt Disney ** Once upon a time I used to imagine ridiculous things – places that I wanted to go, where I’d live, what I’d drive, people I’d be around. I had a whole vision of what life would be like. I imagined that this would bring me ful…
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July 15, 2025

Death Of An Ego

I recently spoke to someone with whom I’d had a misunderstanding. It’s amazing what you can learn when you decide to listen and are also listened to. It’s funny how something simple can be ironed out and peace is restored. It’s amazing what can be achieved when you put your ego aside so that the truth can reign. It …
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July 10, 2025

Focused

I don’t have much to say today other than:     focus on what you have to do, not what is happening around you. Don’t split your attention. Don’t allow yourself to be distracted by unnecessary things.     Take back what is yours; take back your focus, and do your work without turning your head to the right or left. W…
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July 08, 2025

Restoring Broken Things

I recently read the following statement:   everyone has to give up on certain dreams in life. The more people you meet, the more you see in the way of broken dreams.  And that people are coming to terms with something they expected to happen but didn’t .   Does it sincerely have to be like this?  I know we have expect…
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July 03, 2025

T'is So Sweet

I like that a new month can feel like a new opportunity to start over, start again, even as you are continuing. It creates the illusion of a blank slate, as if you can scrape away the past and start fresh. I think this second half offers that opportunity. I’m beginning to realize that it’s the passing of time we shoul…
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June 26, 2025

Bold Move Ahead

As the first six months of the year are wrap up, I can’t believe how fast time is moving. I feel that there’s so much to do—and not enough time. I need to do some reflection and prepare for the coming month. But I want to challenge myself. And I think the first challenge is it reconsider how I think about time.  God h…
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June 24, 2025

Warning Signs and Exit Doors

And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom. Anaïs Nin ***** I remember going on a date a few years ago with a guy I had just met. He picked me up late one evening. We went downtown. I hadn’t known that we would go to a bar, and the place was packed---we …
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June 19, 2025

Banality and Belief

Exercising faith is not a walk in the park-- even for someone like me who is always in church, praying, and reading the Bible. I’ll speak for myself and say that, despite what I know I think it’s often hard to maintain faith, to exalt it above what I see, hear, and feel because these things often feel more real. But…
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June 17, 2025

Unusual Faith, Unusual Times

"The just shall live by faith." ** There is a faith that perseveres through all sorts of challenges and difficulties. You must hang on to that faith. There’s a faith that perseveres through the nearly impossible; you must hang on to that faith. There’s a faith that stands immovable when everything is falling…
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June 10, 2025

Convinced

Ten days into the new month, and what can I say about faith?    The convictions that you have in your heart stir up great opposition. Coming to Christ, a lot of people talk about the things they gave up, walked away from, and even hid because God was calling them to something different.     Abraham was called out from…
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June 05, 2025

Stretch Your Faith

He will not let your foot slip-- he who watches over you will not slumber.. Psalm121:3 ** Trust is sometimes required where one may not yet have evidence of the other party having come through. Your faith must take that initial step—making a decision that your feelings are not convinced of, but that you know is right.…
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June 03, 2025

A New Month, A New Mindset

Happy New Month! About 2 or 3 birthdays ago I was feeling restless, and I was praying for something different. I wasn’t sure what I meant by it, but my life felt routine and predictable: I was doing the same things, complaining about the same things, frustrated by the same things. I know that when I feel that deep dis…
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May 29, 2025

Hope Against Hope

My experience of God is that He doesn’t follow a 3 step plan, or a 10 step plan in which you are seeing him move at each junction. Often, the closer you get to a looming deadline, the deadness of silence is disorienting. A flood of panic rushes over you, intent to drown you. I don’t have a solution for this place ot…
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