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Keeping Things Stupid Simple

Keeping Things Stupid Simple

The best advice I ever received about communicating was the acronym K.I.S.S. (Keep It Simple, Stupid!).  I don’t always take this advice – which...

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Help for Loneliness

Help for Loneliness

Several years ago, I was given an assignment from my mentor at the time. It seemed simple. It was not. I did it anyway.

He...

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Life Together

Life Together

One of my quarantine books has been Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s Life Together. The book has been a friend to me throughout my adult life. We...

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Beauty from Ashes

Beauty from Ashes

It is true that some of the most beautiful writing, music, and story have come from the periods of our history when we experienced...

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Love for Extroverts in the Age of Corona

Love for Extroverts in the Age of Corona

I really don’t want anyone’s pity out there, but this Corona Virus is tough on us extroverts, especially us extroverts whose love language is...

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You Got Nothing

You Got Nothing

Recently, I’ve come to realize that at least one of the reasons my daughter was put here on this earth was to point out...

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The Day after MLK Day

The Day after MLK Day

I was with some friends tonight for dinner. It’s Martin Luther King Jr. Day, and our conversation eventually drifted over to him.

A good thing.

We...

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Get Up

Get Up

There is this great passage in I Kings when Elijah draws a line in the sand for the people of Israel and basically says....

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Advent Snuck Up On Me! [Day 1]

Advent Snuck Up On Me! [Day 1]

It was an honor to be asked to be the first one to write for the EVERYDAY EXILES CHRISTMAS PROJECT. It was not the...

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Getting Wet

Getting Wet

I have a friend who had a dream. In the dream he was zooming and zipping down a whitewater rapid. He had no life...

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