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It would be just like him

The God of the Bible looks like Jesus, the radiance of God’s glory and the exact representation of his being. It would be just like him to go to the cross.

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Practicing Our Scales

Imagine if our walk with Christ, representing his kingdom in the world, were as practiced and pure as Hania Rani’s fingers on the piano keys.

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Rescue

I practice the spiritual discipline of rescuing earthworms on paved surfaces. It's a reminder to me that I can pause what I'm doing, get a little dirty, and help. Also, that I've been given the responsibility to care.

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Your Roots Are Showing

The life that I bring to the world can only be found in my attachment to Christ. His presence with me is essential.

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Connection

I live in a U.S. county with traffic problems. It's a peninsula, and what's not swamp land has been developed. Building new roads is difficult and expensive. Making things worse, roads that could connect don't.

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Seek, Dwell, Gaze, Seek

A king, a man after God's own heart.

One thing I ask from the Lord, this only do I seek: that I may dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life, to gaze on the beauty of the Lord and to seek him in his temple. — Psalm 27:4

This is the invitation to people who like action words. It's pursuit, and desire, and wonder that fuels faithful participation with God, even when participation looks like repentance.

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Stroad

Our spiritual life will include fast and slow. But stay away from stroads.

The twelve gates were twelve pearls, each gate made of a single pearl. The great street of the city was of gold, as pure as transparent glass. ⏤ Revelation 21:21

Streets are for local traffic. Roads are thoroughfares. Travel streets slowly enough to stop for a kid's ball, wave to a neighbor, or admire someone's landscape. Travel roads to get somewhere faster. Streets are relational, prioritizing the here and now. Roads aim for a destination. And now there's the stroad —a corruption of street and road —serving neither purpose well.

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We Have Say

At a time when false heroes are being exposed.

Let the morning bring me word of your unfailing love, for I have put my trust in you. Show me the way I should go, for to you I entrust my life. — Psalm 143:8

Trust is the bedrock of our mental health and general quality of life. In my lifetime, this has never been more apparent than it is right now. We don't trust institutions, news and information, society's elites, or even photos and videos. Still, we have to trust. So, whom will we trust? That's a choice that only we can make.

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