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Lent 2021 Day 15 – Dealing with the Challenges

 wgmeisheid  March 5, 2021  0 Comments on Lent 2021 Day 15 – Dealing with the Challenges

Sometimes life overwhelms us. There are too many things to do, too many demands, and we are behind on so much that we feel like we are being buried by it all. Those are difficult times, often with no apparent…

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Lent 2021 Day14 – Cancel Culture

 wgmeisheid  March 4, 2021  0 Comments on Lent 2021 Day14 – Cancel Culture

Sometimes it looks like the world is spinning out of control, but I guess that is a feeling born of living through a period in the United States where life has been relatively stable for a long time. I have…

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2021 Lent Day 13 – Ron Conran’s Funeral

 wgmeisheid  March 3, 2021  0 Comments on 2021 Lent Day 13 – Ron Conran’s Funeral

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…

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2021 Lent Day 12 – Time Shifts

 wgmeisheid  March 2, 2021  0 Comments on 2021 Lent Day 12 – Time Shifts

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…

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2021 Lent Day 11 – Christian Identity Crisis

 wgmeisheid  March 1, 2021  0 Comments on 2021 Lent Day 11 – Christian Identity Crisis

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…

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2021 Lent Day 10 – Gift of Love

 wgmeisheid  February 28, 2021  0 Comments on 2021 Lent Day 10 – Gift of Love

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:…

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2021 Lent Day 9 – Remodeling Our Lives

 wgmeisheid  February 27, 2021  0 Comments on 2021 Lent Day 9 – Remodeling Our Lives

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…

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2021 Lent Day 8 – What Have We Given Up?

 wgmeisheid  February 25, 2021  0 Comments on 2021 Lent Day 8 – What Have We Given Up?

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…

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2021 Lent Day 7 – Entertainment’s Assault

 wgmeisheid  February 25, 2021  0 Comments on 2021 Lent Day 7 – Entertainment’s Assault

It didn’t take till my fifth day for me to miss a post, so this is a belated effort. I didn’t realize I had missed writing last night until I was driving to work this morning. Frustrating to have failed…

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2021 Lent Day 6 – Fear is the Soul Killer

 wgmeisheid  February 23, 2021  0 Comments on 2021 Lent Day 6 – Fear is the Soul Killer

In 1 Samuel 12:24 the Lord says, “Only fear the Lord [with awe and profound reverence].” Amplified. We are called to fear only the Lord and pointedly nothing else. There are over a 100 verses along the lines of fear not.  God is…

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