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    Light Dispelling

    What is dark to us is not even dark to You, O Lord. That which is brightened by your Light ushers You in. Dark is dispelled from us. Your Presence--Light occupying the seized. Basking, here is the new creation you’ve made of your shining saints. Change undeniable! This knowledge...
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    Things that are getting harder to do

    ...and "Hang Ten!" sure has more dramatic flair that "Give me five!"
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    Things that are getting harder to do

    ...harder not to whistle when I'm in public. Whether I'm hiking around the neighborhood or in the mall, the sound of birds or a tune from a loudspeaker can put me in the mood. I attend an "expressive" church. Thankfully the music was loud and everyone was into worship. I started to...
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    Things that are getting harder to do

    With you on that one! With all the prompts, I feel like I'm being taken through all those entryways we'd see at the beginning of the TV comedy, "Get Smart".
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    Spirit-bail

    The Lord paid the Spirit-bail over my destiny,* to walk on, my soul set free! The old master, sin, wields no whip to make cower. Scars of the past are just that: a past hour. “Done left the plantation”, I have for some time. Each step within Jesus’ will recalls the sublime that New Jerusalem...
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    Things that are getting harder to do

    It’s harder not to laugh at the pharmaceutical commercials that make it look chic and ecstatic to take their meds. Oh, then there’s the weird med names. Do they even use focus groups to select names? I wouldn’t name a pet after them. Oh brother, they’ll read this and start naming...
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    Things that are getting harder to do

    There’s a big, state-of-the-art “Y” near me that feels like an old folks mall. I prefer the mixing of ages to (1) make me feel younger and (2) so I can give youngsters a hint that I can do more push-ups than they can—that they should do
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    Things that are getting harder to do

    Harder to row my boat ashore, but not to say "Hallelujah!"
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    God's Rule

    (After reading John 15:1-17) Father, I extend my soul to follow your rules, to befriend your heart, do service for you, because your Son sought you, fulfilled the Law, I seek you, too, demonstrate love. First by the knowing he gave all for me. By this grand mercy, I show grace secondly. Thirdly...
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    Things that are getting harder to do

    …the harder it is to not be stirred by an old hymn.
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    Things that are getting harder to do

    The older I get , the more I turn to look when someone says “That old guy”.
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    Things that are getting harder to do

    The post-it note, for instructions? I ask because the older I get, the more I write how-to’s and to-do’s.
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    Things that are getting harder to do

    …harder to have a coffee-less morning!
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    Things that are getting harder to do

    I grow more concerned at the disbelieving reaction I get from Gen Xers and Z’s when I explain that their slang has stuff I used in the ‘60s and ‘70s.
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    Not Be Ashamed

    Over the past few years, I've noticed that in praise music, emphasis on the Lord taking our shame away has been the norm for many song lyrics. All well and good when we isolate the emphasis to its meaning. But, the trend also seems top-heavy and out of proportion to what a balanced Christian...
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    Wind of His Ways

    ...after reading Isaiah 40:27-31 We can have strength without fully understanding the depths of God’s seas and the timing of waves, those fresh days when gales gather over the oceans, the moments when gray skies loom over the lakes. When we no more question the answers of each day, we log every...
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    What now, Bethlehem?

    ...from Isaiah 62:7 6...You who call on the Lord , give yourselves no rest, 7and give him no rest till he establishes Jerusalem and makes her the praise of the earth (NIV-1984) Matthew 6:10 your kingdom come, your will be done on earth as it is in heaven (NIV-1984) What now, Bethlehem? You...
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    Incarnation

    Pondering... Micah 5:2 (KJV) But thou, Bethlehem Ephratah, though thou be little among the thousands of Judah, yet out of thee shall he come forth unto me that is to be ruler in Israel; whose goings forth have been from of old, from everlasting. & Luke 2:8:17 8 And there were in the same...