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Earthenware Vessel: March 2015
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Saturday, March 28, 2015. Sad" Is Not "Bad" (Pastor Mom Devotion #3). Since the Teacher's lessons do not yet come in verbal form, I'm not certain I've comprehended correctly, but I think she's teaching me that I shouldn't expect to prevent her from suffering. Of course, I will try to save her unnecessary, pointless suffering, but no one's life will ever be pain-free. Actually, this is something my mother talked about when I was a kid. There was a PBS program called Lamb Chop's Play-Along. It's very easy ...
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Earthenware Vessel: October 2014
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Friday, October 17, 2014. The Legend of Charles Plumier and the Tree of Riches. Several months ago, I came across a delightful little book called Hidden Stories in Plants. By Anne Pelowski. The sub-title is: "Unusual and Easy-To-Tell Stories From Around the World Together With Creative Things To Do While Telling Them. ". So, Charles waited for the next full moon, and when it came, he went to the cemetery and found the tree growing beside the south wall. He took hold of the trunk and as he shook it, a...
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Earthenware Vessel: January 2014
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Monday, January 13, 2014. World's Largest Entertainment McDonald's. We finally made our pilgrimage to the World's Largest Entertainment McDonald's (located in Orlando). It was . well . let me show. As I understand it, an "entertainment McDonald's" is a McDonald's that contains an arcade. And the World's Largest Entertainment McDonald's also has a "gourmet bistro" with special menu items not available at a normal McDonald's. The Reuben looked better than it tasted. It has some interesting decorations.
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Earthenware Vessel: February 2014
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Monday, February 3, 2014. Rest In Peace, Philip Seymour Hoffman. Rest in peace, Philip Seymour Hoffman. Your loss is felt. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Rest In Peace, Philip Seymour Hoffman. Blogs, Blogs, Blogs, Blogs. People of Earth: Faces of Asia G3F In Store! Messages from Pops Way. IT'S STreeTarT THurSDay iN MaLiBu! Thursday, August 18, 2016. It dawned on me. We Are Not What We Own. Protected: Real Life Plant Symbolism. Inherit Wealth, Not Culpability. Words: I Am Joshua Horky. Hyperbole and a Half.
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Earthenware Vessel: Class Is Now In Session (Pastor Mom Devotion #1)
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Friday, March 13, 2015. Class Is Now In Session (Pastor Mom Devotion #1). Truly, I say to you, unless you turn and become like children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven." Matthew 18:3 (ESV). The focus of this, my first devotional reflection is that I am learning to learn(! And as someone wise once pointed out (and probably pointed out many times, actually): people do not learn from experience; they learn from reflecting on their experience. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). It dawned on me.
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Earthenware Vessel: Being A Benevolent Despot (Pastor Mom Devotion #2)
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Friday, March 20, 2015. Being A Benevolent Despot (Pastor Mom Devotion #2). It's very easy to do right now; the Teacher is three months old today and it feels very natural to rush to meet her need every time she cries. I'm sure that's what Mother Nature intended by making us perceive babies as adorably pathetic. I wonder, though: is it really the case that children ask for things they don't need at all? Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Sad Is Not Bad (Pastor Mom Devotion #3). Blogs, Blogs, Blogs, Blogs.
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Earthenware Vessel: April 2014
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Friday, April 4, 2014. Winter (poem and pictures). Okay, so I started writing a poem about winter a while ago and only just finished it this evening. Here it is with some wintry photos from earlier this year. Sorry it's so unseasonal now. Why should I not welcome. The bitterness that bites. All that was lazily flowing. My heart has learned to wait. On flames that rise from cinders;. To pulse with, sense the latent sap. I have seen many winters. Falling mercury understates the slowing down of. Stories fro...
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Earthenware Vessel: April 2015
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Sunday, April 19, 2015. A Meditation on Joshua Horky's Passing. God stretches out his hand. It is not to pull us up. But to push us down. Like a gardener’s finger. 8220;And let us consider how to provoke one another to love and good deeds …” Hebrews 10:24. I guess that needs a little more “unpacking”:. Each other on to continue growing in faith and in love, even in Joshua’s absence. Anyway, I thank God for Joshua’s life, for the friend he was to Brandon, for the chance to get to know him, for the e...
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Earthenware Vessel: How Can We Pray Boldly For Healing, Knowing God Might Say 'No'?
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Saturday, February 28, 2015. How Can We Pray Boldly For Healing, Knowing God Might Say 'No'? How The Question Came Up. My husband's best friend recently found out that his recurrent cancer is inoperable and likely to kill him in the very near future. He and his wife have been encouraging friends and family to read this insightful article by John Piper. And they have asked loved ones to join them in praying for a miracle, even as they prepare for "the worst.". Not What I Will, But What You Will". But perh...
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Earthenware Vessel: July 2014
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Monday, July 28, 2014. On rare occasions I have had the blessing of being nudged, shoved, or tumbled headlong into a new way of being, such that it feels as if I've only just begun "really living." Recently I've had a not-dramatic kind of learning experience, just gradually wandering into a state of greater enjoyment of everyday life. I used to like to sign off emails "Happy Ordinary Day! Now I'm sort of saying it to myself inside all the time (though not literally). A cascade of wild green curves! My Ec...
