ROAD TRIP!!

ROAD TRIP tomorrow!!!  Whoo-hoo.  Cari and I head out early in the morning for our road trip to Minnesota. Ok – it’s a working road trip but nevertheless, we are going to have a grand time getting out of town and hitting the open highway. I’m really pumped.  We have good company, good music, good [...]

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Solidarity

Don’t have time to write much tonight but found this quote that I find incredibly rich and challenging.  Wanted to share it with everyone.
Mostly we think of people with great authority as higher up, far away, hard to reach. But spiritual authority comes from compassion and emerges from deep inner solidarity with those who are [...]

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Who am I?

Catch up time:  This week has been incredibly busy – all day and every evening so I haven’t had time to post regularly.  However, I have been experiencing many blessings the last few days that I must share.
Thursday: Spent time with family and especially my dad for the first time since he returned from Europe.  [...]

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Poopoopreen

I love my middle school youth.  They crack me up when I least expect it.  I love their humor and their craziness and their rare take on things.  Tonight we were talking about James 4:11-12 where it says that when we bad-mouth friends it is like writing graffiti all over the word of God.  So, [...]

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Judge Melissa got served

Today was a little out of the norm but I like it that way.  Went to Columbia all afternoon to judge an FBLA public speaking event.  About 8 high school students gave 4 minute speeches on a business/FBLA related issue.  Pretty interesting and I enjoyed being an all-important judge.  I thought about coming early, wearing [...]

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Swinging Weekend

I know I’ve mentioned it before but it case you have forgotten or in case I didn’t make myself clear the first several times – I positively, without-a-doubt LOVE spring!!!  This weekend was absolute gorgeous and could not have been any better weather wise if I had ordered it myself.  THANK YOU, CREATOR, for spring [...]

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Being Honest

Is it more challenging to be honest with other people or to be honest with yourself?   To be honest with other people about difficult things is challenging but there is a degree of understanding that it is best and the responsible relational rule to follow.  So many of us have seen the effects of dishonesty [...]

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Blessing Booyah!

Sorry I’ve not posted for a couple of days.  It has been crazy, whacked out busy but good and rich in blessings.
Tuesday blessings:  Experiencing true undeserved grace from a friend and being reminded of the undeserved grace I receive endlessly from God.  A soul friend who is available to listen and receive me whenever I [...]

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Get Your Feet Wet

It had been way too long since I walked barefoot in the rain.  But I took care of that today.  I went downtown for lunch with a co-worker and as we walked back to the church, the rain poured.  We had umbrellas but it didn’t help much.  So at Central Bank, I stopped, took off [...]

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Dead bird blessings

Tonight at Chi Alpha (our youth worship) I challenged the crew to be looking for "unexpected blessings".  (yes – my youth must suffer through whatever my current passion or interest is. I think they are really grateful that my polka fetish has phased out.)  Anyway – I gave them two homework assignments.  One is to [...]

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