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Running the Rockies

As the sun reached its highpoint for the day, I finished my race. Twenty-three miles and 5000 feet of elevation. I was exhausted from and

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For the first day of school. . .

A few scrappy, three-foot cuttings, no bigger than buggy whips, are coming up from the front yards of a half-dozen houses that, together, may someday

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Ferns on the Ceiling

It’s unnerving and a little touching when a younger friend of many years seems overly concerned with your safety and comfort, but truth is, he

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The Peaches of Paradise

Apple, schmapple.  I’ll bet it was a peach.  The writer of Genesis tells us that God encouraged Adam and Eve to gather all the fruits and

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Ten Random Things

Once again, the grab bag presents itself. Ten bits and pieces to sample. I hope at least one will make you smile or cry, wince

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The Cost of Freedom

My wife and I were walking out of the grocery store; the man wearing a T-shirt adorned with “Sorry I Can’t Hear You Over the

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Wage Peace

Like many pastors, I both enjoy and am embarrassed by the church signs that congregations create to lure in, I mean evangelize, people driving by.

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Fidget. Focus. God.

Fidget Having two children has allowed me to become familiar with the practice of fidgeting, and by this I don’t just mean putting up with

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