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Mr and Mrs Boring and the Pastel Purse
And now, the third segment in the Adventures of Mr and Mrs Boring. Go to mrandmrsboring.wordpress.com for the first and second posts. Soon, I will only post “the adventures” on that blog. He had never had a full-time love before … Continue reading
Posted in catholicism, Fiction, humor, Life, Relationships
Tagged adventures, Catholicism, fiction, Life, men, Mr Boring, Mrs Boring, relationships, women
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When you can’t love yourself
When you can’t love yourself and can’t seem to grasp not the world at large but the window before you- find a safe little place for some supernatural space and wait for the appearance of God.
Posted in catholicism, Christianity, Dreams/Goals, Life, Men, Morality, Pentecostalism, Poetry, Relationships, Uncategorized, Women, Writing
Tagged Christianity, God, love, Morality, peace, poetry, prayer, writing
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Return to me, and I will return to you
Return to me, and I will return to you. That is the message in the first part of Malachi 3. Way before the Lord speaks about the tithe in the latter part of Malachai 3, the Word speaks of Christ … Continue reading
Posted in catholicism, Christianity, Language, Life, Morality, Pentecostalism, Relationships, Teaching, Uncategorized
Tagged accusations, bondage, Christ, fasting, God, homelessness, hungry, Life, Morality, oppression, right and wrong, righteousness, The Bible, the meaning of life, the Old Testament, tithing, wickedness
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Justice and mercy
I struggle with diabetes. Many years ago, I worked in a high stress, high performance, high profile career that contributed to a food and health lifestyle that lead to the development of that diabetes. It didn’t help that I made … Continue reading
Posted in catholicism, Christianity, Culture, Dreams/Goals, Food, Health, Life, Men, Morality, Pentecostalism, Uncategorized, Women
Tagged diabetes, faith, food, health, humility, job search, jobs, justice, kindness, Life, lifestyles, meaning of life, mercy, nutrition, purpose, stress
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And you thought you had problems…
I am breathing. I ate something today. I have a place to stay. Maybe my world looks “turned upside down,” but I still walk on a path right-side-up with a God who already knows what I need. The haters who … Continue reading
Posted in catholicism, Christianity, Dreams/Goals, Life
Tagged faith, Life, meaning of life, relationships, spirit, storm, trials, trouble, upside down
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the road to the top of nowhere?
i have a headache the size of a mountain this evening…and it does not come from scaling heights to glimpse a fantastic view, like this one above Lost River, deep in Nowhere, West Virginia. No, it is a problematic headache, … Continue reading
Posted in Adventure, catholicism, Christianity, Doctor Who, Dreams/Goals, Hiking, Life, Pentecostalism, Photography, Relationships, Travel, Uncategorized
Tagged Doctor Who, dreams, faith, Forests, goals, Life, Lost River, Mountains, photography, problems, relationships, Sontarans, travel, trust, West Virginia
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In the blank space on the bookshelf
To everything…there is a season…Ecclesiastes claims, the Birds (not the angry ones) sang, and ’tis true. The trees, the leaves, the plants of the field, all change with time. And, so too, the ages of a man or a woman. … Continue reading
Posted in catholicism, Christianity, Dreams/Goals, Life, Men, Morality, Pentecostalism, Uncategorized, Women
Tagged ages, bookcases, books, bookshelves, change, chapters, dreams, Ecclesiastes, goals, libraries, library, Life, purgatory, seasons, The Birds, times
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What the Word says
Count it all joy, my brethryn, when you encounter various trials, knowing that the testing of your faith produces endurance. (James 1) “Blessed are you when people insult you and persecute you, and falsely say all kinds of evil against … Continue reading
Posted in catholicism, Christianity, Life, Pentecostalism, Relationships, Uncategorized
Tagged Bible, false charges, persecution, trails, unfair practices
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Diagnosis: Hope
Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. The word “hope” here goes way beyond the same concept of “hope” we have in English because it is literally “a knowing assurance based on spiritual … Continue reading
Posted in catholicism, Christianity, Dreams/Goals, Life, Morality, Pentecostalism, Uncategorized
Tagged Christianity, culture, faith, God, Life, meaning of life, men, purpose, relationships, women
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