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At the beginning of my faith walk my spiritual mentor and friend, a student minister named Frank Meyer, got me started in a scripture memory program offered by the “Navigators Ministry”.
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Bubbles used to make me think of soap bubbles blown by children at play. This spring I gained a new definition of a social bubble.
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I got a new perspective on home as I looked over a picture of a husband and wife embraced at the foundation of their house that burned to the ground and of the picture of a mom sobbing into her grown son’s arms standing in the ashen remains of their community.
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The season is changing. Shorter days. Cool mornings. Summer is fading way making way for fall’s bounties. The heat lovers and sun worshippers feel this change with sadness, but not me.
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Roxy is getting used to living with us and is starting to show her true personality. She barks when she wants her breakfast, lunch and dinner. Her barks start half an hour before meal times and continue until she chows down.
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As my family of 4 traversed across the country from Eastern WA through Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, South Dakota, Iowa, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, and Kentucky we were on a mission ultimately to the beach, but first we had a stop to make in East Tennessee, the place where I spent half my life.
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When I turned seven my time of living fulltime with my Grandparents had come to an end. I think maybe my Grandfather, Charles Boyd, was trying to hurry and squeeze in some life lessons he thought I was going to need.
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The last few years of my father’s life were tough. His physical health was in decline, his mental health increasingly faltered. He died in February.
The Covid-19 “Stay at Home” order has certainly caused fear, grief and inconvenience for all of us over the last 90 days and will continue in some form for a while at least.
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When I was a kid I didn’t consider what it meant to be a dad. My parents were divorced and my early years included visits to my dad’s house every other weekend, holidays and summer vacation.
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