Sexual Healing. . . .
Thinking this week about the 35-year high school reunion I’m going to miss tomorrow has sparked lots of thoughts about how the world has changed over the course of that time. The human heart and “all things” that were once…
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What Has Life Done To Us? . . . .
Thirty-five years. That’s how long it’s been since I graduated from Upper Dublin High School. I remember back then how older people would say that time flies. That certainly wasn’t my experience. Now, I hear myself telling younger folks the…
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Garbage. . .
We didn’t know we had a mess until it was moving day. Actually, we knew full well that we had a mess. . . we just kept ignoring it until moving day. It was the year before I was married…
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Should I Retire? . . . .
Did you happen to catch the cover of yesterday’s Parade Magazine? It was right there in my Sunday paper yesterday morning where it always is, buried in the weekly stuffing made up of colorful sale flyers advertising all kinds of…
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Almost 20! . . .
For this blog entry, I’d like to step out of the normal routine of talking about culture, faith, and life, to talking about CPYU. Tuesday of this week will be a day to look back and say “thank you.” Wednesday…
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When Celebrity Dies. . . .
Another clump of celebrity deaths. . . and they all played some type of role in my childhood and young adult years. I hadn’t thought about any of them at all until their names hit the news this week. First,…
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So This Is Who We Are? . . .
I suppose these are things I already knew. I just didn’t know it was so bad. I’m still trying to process it all. It’s come to light as I’ve been forced to deconstruct and understand traffic to this blog and…
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Too Much Shakin Goin On. . . .
The Friday death of John Houghtaling conjured up a pop culture memory that’s appropriate to recall during Father’s Day weekend. You see, Houghtaling was the inventor of a delightful little device – at least I thought so – that I…
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Parenting Secrets. . . .
There’s a funny little story that gets told around our house every Father’s Day. It’s about something that happened in our family on a Father’s Day about nineteen or twenty years ago. It was a beautiful Father’s Day afternoon and…
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I’ve Been Surrounded. . .
One thing I’ve always loved about the Old Testament are the passages of remembrance. These are the times when the leaders of Israel would call all the people around to remind them of what God had done in their midst.…
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Father Memories. . .
Sunday June 21 is Father’s Day. On that Sunday night, one in three children in America will go to bed in a home where their father does not live. To be more specific, that group includes over 25 million children.…
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In My Blood. . .
Before leaving for our trip to Kenya and Rwanda with Compassion International four weeks ago, I had several people tell me how the trip would change my life. A handful of people actually used these words: “Africa will get in…
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