Category: Life
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Carrying
Featured song: He Will Carry You, by Scott Wesley Brown, from his 1983 album Signature. Life brings many joys, but it also brings many sorrows. We suffer sickness, loss of friends and family, and pain from things we do to ourselves and things others do to us. We put on the mask that tries to…
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Man and Woman
Featured song: Woman, Man That I Love, from Paul Clark’s 1977 album Hand To The Plow. Twenty-three years ago today, I stepped out on a journey that I have never regretted. It has become stronger and more sweet with time. I am not referring to my journey with Jesus, but rather the life I have…
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Mothers and Time
Featured Song: Watercolour Ponies, by Wayne Watson, from the 1987 album of the same name. Today is Mother’s Day, 2009. It is, I have heard, one of the busiest days for telephone traffic of nearly any other day of the year. Some recollections of mothers are, sadly, not positive. For those people for whom this…
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Trouble and Overcoming
Featured song: Breakfast Table, by Chris Rice, from his 2005 album, Amusing. I attended a funeral yesterday for a uncle that I’ve not had much opportunity to see in the past few years. He had lived a long life, but as with everyone, the body finally wore out and he had to leave us. In…