We went to a funeral today. Ron Conran was 86 and he was one of the most interesting men I have ever known. As I sat and listened to family members give their eulogies, one thing above all others stood out: Ron was a strong, loving husband, father, and grandfather. As family members shared their…
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2021 Lent Day 12
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Blessings to everyone today, for this is the day the Lord has made. As an older person who has past 70, I often reply when people ask me in the morning how I am, I say, “As long as I see leaves instead of roots when I wake up, it is the beginnings of a…
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2021 Lent Day 11
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I ran across an interesting article today that resonated with my Lenten concerns. It is titled “The Identity Crisis of the Modern American Christian and How to Fix It”. At first, the title put me a bit off, since it sounded a bit presumptuous, but as I got into the arguments the author presented, t…
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2021 Lent Day 10
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Today’s New Testament reading was one of the foundational scriptures for Christians in their efforts to maintain their hope and trust in God. It covered the last verses of Romans 8 where Paul asks a very important, somewhat rhetorical question: “If God is for us, who can be against us?” The answer of course is…
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2021 Lent Day 9
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My wife and daughter bought an old, but in good condition, 1984 small Chevy RV. We have been working on it, getting it in shape by painting the inside, doing a little remodeling, and today stripping the old, messy caulking and unneeded things off of the roof to reseal everything properly. We do not want…
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2021 Lent Day 8
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A recent show I watched had a story line about a man who fixed things for very significant people. He was going to be forced to go into hiding to protect his family, especially his young daughter. Sitting across the table from his wife he made a confession. He had always wanted to be on…