Hospitality
There we found believers and were invited to stay with them for seven days. Acts 28:14The weekend before I was to start working at Lighthouse UMC, I went to a monastery for prayer and reflection. At first it seemed like I was making reservations at the Holy Hilton. I was able to book it online, make my donation with a credit card, and let them know how many meals I’d be eating…
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Run, Shannon, Run!
“But many who are first will be last, and the last will be first.” Mark 10: 31 I think I’ve shared with you before that I was not the star P.E. student in my younger days. It was a struggle for me not to be last. And so it ended up that that became my goal: not to be last. As I got older, I don’t want to say that I became…
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I Got Stoned
They stoned Paul and dragged him out of the city, supposing that he was dead. But when the disciples surrounded him, he got up and went into the city. The next day he went on with Barnabas to Derbe. Acts 14: 19a-20 I recently had another minor health set back. On Monday I started having stomach pains and nausea again. I ended up in the ER (why do these things always happen…
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The Sock Monkey
“So therefore, none of you can become my disciple if you do not give up all your possessions.” Luke 14:33 I was a thumb sucker as a child. I think I was in first grade before I eventually gave it up. It very much was possibly my first addiction. I had two enablers for this first addiction 1) my blankie and 2) my sock monkey. When my mom discovered that my blankie…
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The Whole World
“For what will it profit them if they gain the whole world but forfeit their life? Or what will they give in return for their life?” Matthew 16:26 Friends is one of my favorite all-time shows. It ranks up there with MASH and The Andy Griffith Show as shows that I’ll stop channel surfing for. One of the great things about the show is the one liners. One of my favorites is…
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Sunday!
A Sabbath Poem (Cummings) -By E.E.Cummings i thank You God for most this amazingday:for the leaping greenly spirits of treesand a blue true dream of sky;and for everythingwich is natural which is infinite which is yes (i who have died am alive again today,and this is the sun’s birthday;this is the birthday of life and love and wings:and of the gaygreat happening illimitably earth) how should tasting touching hearing seeingbreathing any-lifted from…
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