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Month: December 2020

Posted on December 31, 2020December 30, 2020

Year end, 2020

Thanks to all of you who have been following this blog. It was born in July as an experiment to address several felt needs: To…

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Posted on December 30, 2020December 29, 2020

Listen, and speak.

"If you want to know how to make people shun you and laugh at you behind your back and even despise you, here is the…

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Posted on December 29, 2020December 28, 2020

“Here, I made this.”

artifact noun 1. an object made by a human being, typically an item of cultural or historical interest: gold and silver artifacts. I have an antique suitcase filled with old letters from…

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Posted on December 28, 2020December 27, 2020

Whatever you want

We stood in front of the menu at Dairy Queen. Grandpa waved his hand at all of it and said, "Get whatever you want!" My…

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Posted on December 26, 2020December 24, 2020

Look and listen

I have a close friend who is mostly deaf. I've learned so much from him. He's given me a glimpse of how sound-dependent I am.…

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Posted on December 25, 2020December 22, 2020

Immanuel

My favorite name for God. Matthew 1:23 says, “The virgin will conceive and give birth to a son, and they will call him Immanuel” (which…

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Posted on December 24, 2020December 22, 2020

No room?

We have four children. When our older children were born, we were living in Dallas just minutes from the hospital. With our younger kids, we…

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Posted on December 23, 2020December 21, 2020

Nativity dragon

There's a dragon in the Nativity Story. We don't put one in the cozy little Nativity sets that we display during Advent--because we don't want…

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Posted on December 22, 2020December 21, 2020

Belligerent bells

One of my favorite Christmas songs is "I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day." It's based on Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's poem, "Christmas Bells." I love…

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Posted on December 21, 2020December 21, 2020

Always recruiting

If you're a leader, you're always recruiting. Perhaps not in the formal sense where you're literally trying to recruit folks to fill positions, but you're…

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