Short notes for weekend reflection.

I accumulate notes that could become posts. These won’t. They are mine unless otherwise attributed. “Tiny stuff. We’re going to do the tiny stuff, the details that look surface, but aren’t.” – refocusing an approach to some work. “Don’t try to be big, try to be great.” – after hearing a little too much about […]

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Being a servant means lots of standing still

People talk about serving God. They talk about wanting to serve God. We spend a lot of time and words doing things that we think are a service to God. As I was talking to some friends about learning how each of us is best made to serve God, I started thinking less about serving […]

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the little faith club

Yesterday we talked about a woman Jesus identified as having “great faith”. Thinking about her made me start thinking about other people whose stories are told in the Bible who we don’t associate with great faith. I searched for “little faith” at Biblegateway.com. I was looking for Peter. What I found is that Jesus used […]

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A prayer for persistence on Monday

God, it’s Monday. You knew that. You know that lots of my friends are asking you for lots of things right now. For peace while waiting to find out about cancer. For patience while waiting to find out about a daughter. For endurance while preparing for a quest. And we keep wondering about the answers, […]

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