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Emotional Sightedness

"Let's open our eyes, our children need us."

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Holy Holy Holy

Do we dare think of ourselves as holy? We have trouble with that don’t we? Of all the adjectives I use to describe myself, holy is usually not at the top of the list.

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My Angel

You were there when I needed you the most even though I could not see...

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The Last Enemy

The first mistake in the garden, and God's undying love

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Submission Schubmission

Submiss? Were we fighting?
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I grew up in Memphis, Tennessee. Granted I timed out for a few years of high school in Texas. In Memphis "back in the day", wrestling was a big part of the culture. Correction, "rastlin" was a big part of the culture. I grew up where Jerry Lawler was "King", Andy Kaufman was a destestable bad guy (I secretly was a fan), and Randy "the Macho Man" Savage would piledrive some scumbags ("Ooohh yeah!"). I never sat around through the "nobody" matches. I timed things just right and would be in front of the TV for the main event. The matches most important to me were the ones with Andre "the Giant" (He was a real giant!), and that wierd guy with the snake.. anyone remember his name? Just kidding - Jake "the Snake" Roberts.

In my preteen years I would support the pretty boys. Rastlin' became more about swooning than slammin' folks. By then I had realized that a man with a 300 pound body of muscle hitting you with a chair would cause lasting damage.  |  Read more

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License to Bitch

Do we need permission to express our feelings just because they are "negative"?
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Is anyone besides me sick and tired of hearing people say to stop expressing being sick and tired? If you are not comfortable with hearing it, feel free to let me know. If you are pretending to be a listening ear while all the while internalizing more and more resentment - "please". That is the consequence of your pretending because it would be easy enough for me to call someone open if I am having some sort of momentary emotional overflowage.

I know that there are some people who see negative in everything - who actually look for negative things. Does the way that they choose to see things negate that you and I can have bad days and feel better after talking about it?  |  Read more

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Ancient Hebrew Thinking Cap

Stepping into the shoes of the authors and subjects of the bible, is a wonderful way to gain understanding of how that ancient people may have seen and understood the world around them.

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Greek was the language that could actually form some sort of common bond between first century Jews and Gentiles. For whatever reason, it was the language of the day God chose to enter into in order to forever change mankind. Once we begin to get a glimpse into this language, we begin to see just how plain and useful it was.

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