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Month: August 2020

Posted on August 31, 2020August 27, 2020

Honor clinic

I recently officiated a wedding. The bride and groom put on an honor clinic. Even though they were the focal point, every facet of this…

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Posted on August 29, 2020August 28, 2020

400 hours

How long does it take to forge a deep friendship? I heard someone throw out "400 hours" as a guess--I don't know if this has…

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Posted on August 28, 2020August 28, 2020

Smart sledge?

My father-in-law gave me a vintage sledgehammer. It's super heavy. It's got an old hickory handle that's been treated with boiled linseed oil. It feels…

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Posted on August 27, 2020August 27, 2020

It’s charming

My wife, Diedra, took a lot of art classes in High School. We found some of her old ceramics pieces when we were going through…

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Posted on August 26, 2020August 17, 2020

Clayton’s pizza

"Hey Dan, I'm hungry. Wanna go in on a pizza?" "It's 9:00pm, Clayton. Why would I want to eat pizza now?" "Because it's delicious! I…

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Posted on August 25, 2020August 17, 2020

Photo albums

Remember when we used to have our pictures developed and we put them in albums? We could take them off the shelf and take a…

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Posted on August 24, 2020August 17, 2020

I see you

"Humans are lonely, and they want to be seen and known."--Seth Godin I heard a powerful story last summer from a man who grew up…

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Posted on August 22, 2020August 17, 2020

Begin to live

J.I. Packer says, "“Readiness to die is the first step in learning to live.” Counterintuitive? Perhaps. Our culture likes to ignore death, defy death, artificially…

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Posted on August 21, 2020August 20, 2020

Solicit advice

People love to give advice. However, unsolicited advice is often considered a faux pax in today’s society—probably to everyone’s impoverishment, but that is the subject…

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Posted on August 20, 2020August 14, 2020

Practice deliberate calm

The patient was crashing. His airway was managed by the anesthesiologist--but there was no pulse. I was shaking. And I'm sure everyone in the room…

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