Category: Spiritual Growth/Formation
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An Answer to Prayer
Two school-aged girls were always missing their morning bus. Ultimately, the principal warned them: “If you are late again, it will mean detention for the both of you – for a week.” They took the warning to heart, but only a few days later the girls found themselves running late once again. One of the […]
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The Time Is Now
It was exactly nine months ago today that my community entered lockdown because of COVID-19. It was a bizarre, disorienting experience as novel as the virus itself. And while my community leaders spoke optimistically of needing “a few weeks to figure this thing out,” all knew that was unrealistic. When I spoke to my congregation […]
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Yesterday
It was the summer of 1964, and the Beatles were everything to rock and roll. Paul McCartney was in a fitful sleep early one morning when a jazz tune his father used to play kept rolling through his dreams. He got up, went to his piano, and tried to hammer it out. There were no […]