weekly reflections
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Week 43 / 44: moments
Week 43 & 44: moments I’m on the road living out of my truck for a few weeks, and currently sitting at Moab Coffee Roasters with a cold brew. It’s been a few days of intense bike riding, and I need a breather (and some WiFi). There’s something living out of a truck teaches you—to Continue reading
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Week 42: leaping
Do you ever have days you feel stuck, barely able to move your feet, anxious then anxious about being anxious about what you have to do, need to do, should do—so overwhelmed you can’t begin anything at all. As much as this applies to ordinary, everyday, mundane life, I think it may especially apply to Continue reading
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Week 41: why Trump can be dangerous
This reflection could more aptly be titled “Why Trump can be Dangerous for the Church” or “for Christianity as a whole.” I’m borderline apolitical, and I try to stay away from political conversations, debates, and arguments. I don’t have authority in this realm. This is my personal opinion. Some might agree with what I have Continue reading
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Week 38: burdens
“Are you weary, carrying a heavy burden? Then come to me. I will refresh your life, for I am your oasis. Simply join your life with mine. Learn my ways and you’ll discover that I’m gentle, humble, easy to please. You will find refreshment and rest in me. For all that I require of you Continue reading
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Week 37: prayer
“Pray your hardest when it’s hardest to pray.” I saw this quote recently. And it rang true. I don’t know if I remember the last time I really prayed in this way (in the traditional sense at least). Sometimes I don’t know if I remember how, or ever even knew. It’s like I was always Continue reading
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Week 35: rest
“I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.” I do not rest as well or as often as I believe I do. Most “rest” is still activity in some way. Then there are the days we have no choice; we are forced to be still. When our bodies are weary and won’t Continue reading
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Week 34: cages
“…Sometimes I feel like my life / is a wild beast / trapped in an unlocked cage / and it is awfully / afraid of what lies / on the other side. // That is what hell is like; / having something / viciously brilliant inside of you, / but not believing in it enough Continue reading
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Week 33: the false/true worshiper (part 2)
Some of us may also be saying: “You know I’m not walking away from you. So what am I walking away from? Please, tell me.” He might respond in this way. “You are walking away from all the things that are associated with me, but are not me. The very things that may have once Continue reading
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Week 32: the false/true worshiper
“These people come near to me with their mouth and honor me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me. Their worship of me is based on merely human rules they have been taught.” Am I a false worshiper? A dishonest worshiper? God asks us to be honest with ourselves. Because when we Continue reading
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Week 31: what brings meaning
“Love for the earth and love for you are having such a long conversation in my heart…” There must be more than the feeling, the experience, the answer. Are you the long longing, the inherent question, the unfulfilled desire? Are you what I am not meant to find though I seek? A door not meant Continue reading
a kingdom built of seeds 