You can’t pray a lie. ~ Mark Twain Can you lie to God? You can certainly say words that aren’t true, can misstate facts, but if you know it’s false, doesn’t that negate prayer? It’s not that we can’t say […]
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Knowing How
I sat, tired from a day visiting, comfortable in my son’s distant home, chilling out with an old friend, a game of Shisen on the computer. My son moved next to me, watched me play. I remembered his saying another […]
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Applying willpower to this compulsion is like applying an antibiotic to a viral infection. It will never have any effect. ~ Voices of Recovery (Kindle Locations 862-863). They call the other people “normies” for a reason. They’ve got this illusive “willpower” […]
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Temptation is a weather gauge, showing prevailing winds, predicting the future by the present, static, innocuous, but meaningful. The bowl of candy leaving Rotary most Fridays sits there. I see it, rejoice that it doesn’t call my name. Until it […]
Continue reading »A Modicum of Faith
Newborn as Shiloh roiled, Sam modeled wisdom, grace — an unpretentious man. They trekked to Arkansas then on, set up a church and scattered seed; a place in Texas dawned a home, a farm from faith and brawn. Sam served and […]
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