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I’m home sick this afternoon, so I thought I’d write a quick blog about the past four days in my life. It started Thursday at the church, when a high pre-Easter stress level drove me to throw my things in the back of my car after work and drive 190 miles to the northwest. Seem
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Palm Sunday is tomorrow (today if you read this after midnight). It’s the day that Jesus rode into Jerusalem to the fanfare of, you know, donkey, palm branches, hosanna and so forth. The story is two thousand years old and, even though the sacred words of Scripture have been read and preached on a million
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Took this photo last night. Walnut sized pieces of hail fell from the sky during our neighborhood’s first major storm of the season. This quarter-sized hailstone was the biggest I recovered yesterday.
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Last week I downloaded a new album from iTunes — well, by “new” I mean “old” but new to me. It’s 1981’s “Troubadour of the Great King” by John Michael Talbot, a humble Franciscan monk and leader of a Catholic religious community in Arkansas. The album is amazing, a mixture of folk, worship and orchestral
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