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Resolve means to reduce by analysis or to make clear or understandable. At least that’s what Merriam-Webster says. Keck and I were talking about resolving things at dinner. We’d been listening to a book called Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World. The book presents the idea that specialization kind of stiffles creativity. We…

Have you ever had something register with you? As in, that finally clicked into place? One meaning of that word in Merriam-Webster is  “a condition of correct alignment or proper relative position.” It’s almost a form of recognition but it goes a little further than that. I registered this when I was reading Madeleine L’Engle’s,…

Arise! Shine! For your light arrives!The splendor of the Lord shines on you! Isaiah 60:1 It happens every day. The sun rises and I should to with joy in my heart for another day. Keck is usually the morning person and talks a lot when he first wakes up. He’s wide awake and ready to go first…

Here’s an again word that I thought meant to table again. I was wrong. A retable is actually part of an altar. It’s said that the retable at Thornham Parva Church, Suffolk is one of the largest pieces of Medieval art. The retable, which is actually part of the altar, was created around 1330 by…

When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot in it and hang on.” Franklin D. Roosevelt It’s said that several of our presidents have used this quote. It’s all about not giving up, about finding something in which you can put your hope and your trust and hold on to again and…

Ever heard the saying, “make a silk purse out of a sow’s ear”? According to The Free Dictionary, it’s an impossibility. Making something of high quality out of low quality materials is a human impossibility. It cannot be done. But, God. I wonder what Ezekiel, skeleton-congregation-preaching Ezekiel, would say? Then he said to me, “Son…

God’s math is astonishing. Especially when it comes to the agains of what’s left over. Remainder means the number left after subtraction or the final undivided part after division that is less or of lower degree than the divisor. It’s supposed to be less than. Yet we see God working again and again in the…

Regrede literally means to go back. I regreded to the gym tonight to lift weights. It’s been a while since I’ve gone, and Keck had to help me with some stretches to strengthen my shoulders. It felt good to get back there and do what I knew I could do. I always think it’s really…

Finally, I have book shelves for my books. Tonight for the first time in “ever” I started shelving my own volumes. There were much loved books by you know who. Jane Austen. There was the Sharon Garlough Brown Sensible Shoes series. Multiple books by a heroine writer Margaret Feinberg. Ann Voskamp, Ruth Soukup, and Jan…