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Month: June 2021

Posted on June 30, 2021July 1, 2021

On reading

One of the great ironies of our age is that we read more words per day than any other generation in the history of the…

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Posted on June 29, 2021June 28, 2021

Heavenly mindedness

There's an old cliche that goes like this: "They're so heavenly minded they're no earthly good." It's a criticism of religious folks who are all…

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Posted on June 28, 2021June 24, 2021

Contentment

[O Lord], give me neither poverty nor riches, but give me only my daily bread. Otherwise, I may have too much and disown you and…

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Posted on June 26, 2021June 26, 2021

Scroll not, lest ye be anxious

I saw a quote last week that I can't find today. It went something like this: "Whenever our awareness exceeds our agency we'll feel anxiety."…

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Posted on June 25, 2021June 24, 2021

Future thieves

C.S. Lewis warns, in his The Screwtape Letters, about being so future-focused that we waste the present. This can happen negatively--by being so worried about…

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Posted on June 24, 2021June 25, 2021

Trade places?

Seneca advised that people should allow only those to influence them “who teach us by their lives, who tell us what we ought to do…

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Posted on June 23, 2021June 22, 2021

Mamma bear

We really struggle to understand God. And that's to be expected, given how small we are. Yet, that fact doesn't make our struggle less frustrating.…

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Posted on June 22, 2021June 22, 2021

Take a seat

We never intended to have assigned seats around our family dinner table. It just sort of happened. And it's only dinner--for some reason, we scramble…

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Posted on June 22, 2021June 21, 2021

Parental hangover

J.B. Phillips, in his classic, Your God is Too Small, lists several common misconceptions of God. One he dubs "Parental Hangover." He notes that one's…

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Posted on June 21, 2021June 20, 2021

In person

As a leader, I've found that sensitive conversations go about one thousand percent better in person. It's important for people to be able to see…

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