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It astounded the people when the Rabbi said you had to be “born again.” Like I would have done, Nicodemus asked questions. How could this be? Jesus the Christ was saying, it’s your spirit that has to be reborn. You have to change your mind. You have to align your spirit with the Spirit of…

I’ve been working on a project that requires I go back in time and list out a bunch of things. The things I’ve accomplished and the things I’ve been good at for some self-work, self-examination. It’s hard to do. Likely because I never thought those things were that important. It seems now they are. I’ve…

My English composition professor smugly sat at the front of the classroom, spitting out clichés, demanding that we clean up our writing act by eliminating the use of them in our essays and papers. Phrases such as: At the end of the day… A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush. It’s…

When people think about traveling to the past, they worry about accidentally changing the present, but no one in the present really thinks they can radically change the future. Annonomous I didn’t simply skim over the words, I thought about them off and on throughout the day. It’s likely a quantum physics kind of statement.…

A dolphin sheds it’s entire skin every two hours. Twelve times per day, an entire new outer skin. Regeneration. Totally new every two hours. Just as if you’ve never sinned is how I learned it in Sunday School. The concept of knowing Jesus the Christ makes you brand new. It’s a mystery beyond understanding. ❤

Today, I started reading the last book by the late Rachel Held Evans. I was so shocked by her early, untimely death earlier this year that I couldn’t start reading it right away . Rachel had a way of saying things that I could relate to her. Her book, Inspired: Slaying Giants, Walking on Water,…

I thought that I had dredged up everything that I’ve ever written or created. Then, I found a box in the closet and went spelunking in our network-attached storage device. I found several Sunday School lessons, poems, musings, full on rants, and many other pieces that will be serving as fodder for this blog. I’ve…

Re-envision. I woke up this morning with one very clear thought. Unusual for me, since you know as well as I, that I wake up all blurry-eyed and discombobulated. But the echo was clear. But you’ve been given more than one. My one clear, cogent thought this morning, August 23, 2019 A couple of Sunday’s…