A Monday ache.

I’ve started this post fifty times in the last day or so. As I start writing, I still don’t know where it will end. That’s because I often write to discover rather than writing to report. And because the story has been changing constantly. That’s the way of the news and our responses to the […]

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Rich’s Ride

Rich and Becky Dixon are friends, They are the kind of friends that you first meet in the comment box and eventually end up in your living room. Along the way, they move  into your heart. If you ever look at the comments here, you have seen Rich a couple times a week, taking my […]

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Telling THE stories

Humans love stories. It’s as if we were made to tell stories and listen to stories. Listening to stories makes our brains respond as if we were actually in the situation. For example, words about smells light up the same part of the brain that that the actual smells do. (The science of storytelling.) But […]

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I am (not) a writer (exactly)

My friend Cheryl talked about Jeff Goins. She talked about a book he wrote about writing. She talked about an exercise in that book about deciding you are a writer. I noted the book and the idea and moved on. A few days later, I saw that the book, You are a writer, was free for my […]

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On setting prayer goals.

I asked our Saturday night group to think about some goals for 2013. I decided to talk with you about  that exercise as well. I said, “I know that sometimes some people have a hard time setting goals, especially when it comes to God-related things. But what if we talked about having some prayer goals?” […]

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