Newtown Returns to School. . . .
As time has passed, I’ve done some deep pondering and soul-searching regarding the best way to respond to high profile tragedies. . . particularly those like the horrifying December 14th massacre at the Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut.…
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Teen Trouble. . . TV Worth Watching? . . .
Mention the Lifetime TV network and reality TV shows to me and I’m going to snicker with some skepticism. When it comes to Lifetime, I think of the glut of “Lifetime Movies” remind me more of overly-dramatized soap operas than…
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We Are NOT Westboro Baptist. . . .
I was thinking. . . if the Westboro Baptist Church folks are really going to show up to protest the funerals of the Sandy Hook Elementary victims in Newtown, CT. . . could my youth worker friends in New England…
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God Bless This Marriage. . . .
Many of you have asked about Saturday’s wedding. Many of you prayed for Saturday’s wedding. Many of you have prayed for our family for years. Thanks to you all. What a day it was. I walked Caitlin down the aisle…
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Wedding Tomorrow! . . . Thinking About Marriage. . . Part 3. . .
Well, tomorrow is the big day here at the Mueller house as I walk a daughter down the aisle for the first time. Excitement is building. . . as is nervousness. Lord, help me to be anything but an emotional…
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Thinking About Marriage. . . Part 2. . . .
Only 4 days left until I walk my oldest daughter down the aisle. Am I getting nervous? You bet. It might be the longest most emotion-filled walk of my entire life! Does anyone have any good advice for me? As…
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DJs, Phone Calls, Humor, and a Deceased Nurse. . . .
The story coming out of London just gets stranger by the moment. You’ve most likely heard the story by now. Two Australian DJs make what we kids used to call a “phony phone call” to the London hospital where a…
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Thinking About Marriage. . . Part 1. . . .
A chant from my childhood that was enlisted to harass others offers a reflection of some once widely accepted and recently lost foundational truths. When budding young “love” would “bite” one of our peers – disrupting our belief that the…
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Kaepernick’s Tattoos And My 90% Cotton Shirts. . . .
So sportswriter David Whitley of The Sporting News has spoken on 49er’s quarterback Colin Kaepernick’s tattoos. . . and Whitley is highly critical. In fact, in his article on Kaepernick he calls the QB out for being inked up, likening him…
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Faith, Filth, and Two-And-A-Half Men. . . .
19-year-old Angus T. Jones plays Jake Harper in the CBS sitcom “Two And A Half Men.” This week he’s put the show on the map with what many are calling a “controversial rant” against the show. . . a rant…
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Black Friday, Cyber Monday, And The Diversions That Never Work. . . .
So people went crazy once again on Black Friday. Have you seen the videos of the lines wrapping around stores. . . not on Friday, but on Thanksgiving night?!? Did you see how people pushed, shoved, and rushed once retailers’…
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Some Thoughts On Integrity. . . .
I was looking at the paint on our bedroom walls the other day. I painted them four years ago. The job took much longer than I had hoped or expected (doesn’t it always?!?). Even though I’m a perfectionist when it…
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