longing

  • In Search of the Ideal, Part 7: Dreams

    Author’s Note: This is the seventh part in a series on mankind’s search for the ideal — the perfect, the mature, the right. I’m convinced that every human being, Christian or not, has at some depth a desire for things to “be right” in the world. This longing drives us to seek answers. Some look

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  • In Search of the Ideal, Part 4: Of Birds & Men (Creation)

    There is little more than I would enjoy in this life than to have a perfect relationship with God’s creatures. I really want them to trust me and to see me as God’s representative, here on planet earth to protect them, provide when they have need, and be a conduit of God’s grace to them.…

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  • In Search of the Ideal, Part 2: Health

    Illness is a part of the fallen condition mankind finds itself in. As part of the curse of Genesis 3 on Adam and Eve, physical death came to humankind and, I assume, sickness and pain. The ideal of fleshly immortality that God created in Eden disappeared and people have been coughing, wheezing, sneezing and itching…

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