Category: Posts
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Waypoints
Christmas 2024 Waypoint – A stopping place on a journey This past year has been unique. Which, when you think about it, makes it the same as every year prior to this one. Almost everything is different. We are all a year older. Our children are a little taller. Our circumstances are not the same…
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Shelter Beneath the Cross
We have a tradition where I live. Every Memorial Day morning, whoever wishes to gathers at the Rock Creek Campground for a breakfast cookout. Sort of a breakfast potluck. People bring coffee cake, pastries, juice, coffee, and the fixin’s for every breakfast dish you ever wished for. Everyone spreads out, sets up their gas fired…
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The Lifeline
First, a little background. During the last half of February and the first of March, we undertook a challenge with our youth group. We titled it the “Screen Time Challenge”. It went like this. The youth were on one team, youth parents on the other. Each team had a coach, one of the youth leader…
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Shops
I like shops. There are so many kinds. No two are alike. They all possess different personalities. They all have different capacities and capabilities. Each was built to address a need. When I place my finger on the map of my life and, starting at my present location, I trace backward through the years to…
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Prison Bars
An Easter Story I will tell you a little about my life. My life with the bars in front of me, and with me behind them. I was a prisoner, and with good reason. I owed a huge debt. A debt many years in the making. Debt handed to me, in part, by my father,…
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Reminders
We, that is, my wife and I, are parents to a little person that struggles with separation anxiety. You may remember me mentioning it previously. For a while we thought we were through that phase, but recently it has surfaced again. I guess there are a few lessons for me to learn yet. And the…
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Wall Hangings
On the south wall of our bedroom, about 30 inches away and at eye level if you are laying on my side of the bed, hang four pieces of paper. They are not in any particular order that I can tell. Each one is attached to the wall with a generous amount of Scotch tape.…
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Walls
He wasn’t quite 6 years old. He was spending the weekly one-hour session with his therapist. He walked over to the dollhouse and proceeded to remove all the walls and doors. He then buried them in the sandbox. Then he commenced to play happily and freely. Before the hour was up, he suddenly became tense,…
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Old School
A tribute to a man who was… just that. Galen Degani 1948 – 2023. You were a faithful servant. May you rest, in peace. There is a group of men, older men, that reside in my mind. They occupy a special place, a room of sorts. They have a few things in common. They have…
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Voices From The Deep
For if the trumpet give an uncertain sound, who shall prepare himself to the battle? 1 Cor. 14:8 Like a lot of others, my interest in the Titanic disaster has been triggered again, mostly due to the tragedy of the submersible that attempted to reach the wreck a few weeks ago. In reading and researching…
The Peak of Inspiration 