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When You Only Got 100 Years To Live

Yesterday I attended a funeral for a dear man who lived ninety years on this earth. Ninety years. The funeral home played a looping montage of photos from his life. A young man in a suit standing beside a truck. A young man in a different suit standing beside the truck with a young woman. …[ read more ]

Lying in Church – Why We Do It, How to Stop

I’ve been wondering lately what would happen if we all stopped lying in church. Working with teens has taught me that by the time a person has reached the age of thirteen; church culture has been very effective at teaching them how to hide themselves and their true thoughts on Sunday mornings. It takes work …[ read more ]

You Were Always On My Mind

On Wednesday of this week, I had a DAY. We’ve all had days like this, right? One where you’re in overdrive before your feet hit the bedroom floor and you move like a relay baton from one responsibility to another with barely time to sip your coffee or check your watch. It was late and …[ read more ]

Hold Still! This Will Only Hurt a Bit

This is the season of flu shots and vaccinations. Every year, my father receives his flu shot and then insists that THAT is what makes him ill. Every year. Like Charlie Brown and his football. Vaccinations are fascinating. Injecting ourselves with a weakened form of a disease, actually invites our bodies to develop a resistance …[ read more ]

Helping Gomer and Goldilocks Out of Mamby Phamby Land

Sometimes I feel like I’m stuck in the fairy tale about Goldilocks and the Three Bears. Goldilocks was trying things out and some things were too hard, some too soft, some too hot, some too cold and some were just right. Americans seem to have embraced a Goldilocks mentality and there are days when I …[ read more ]