Category Archives: Spiritual Contemplation

Beyond Ordinary

Even in our worship, having a certain way of doing things can be helpful, as long as the routine doesn’t become the purpose rather than a means of accomplishing the purpose.
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The Life Aquatic

When we funnel trouble into our lives through our own carelessness, indifference or ignorance, we better be ready to clean up a mess.
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Morning Talks

The roses are blooming, finally. A few days of sunshine and warm temperatures coaxed the buds into their pleasing burst. Continue reading

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Escaping the Heat

If temporary personal comfort and financial mercy produce such delight in us, how much more knowing that we have been spared from the debt of our sin and the price of our former disobedience?

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Hoarders

It’s an interesting moment when we finally realize that the very thing we criticize about someone else is part and parcel of our own life, our own character. Continue reading

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Schedule Change

It is probably a good thing, no matter how delayed, to learn to attend to things according to their need rather than to my desires. Continue reading

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Faith and Fury

A robin had flown in low and landed on the stones less than ten feet away from me. She stood, tilting her head, looking first at me and than at the litter of scattered grass and then back at me. Continue reading

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Good Morning and Good Blessings

What is there more welcome than sunshine after a long stretch of gloomy weather? Continue reading

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A Slow Planting

This body is not the substance of our immortality but is rather its seed. And no seed can bear its fruit until it has been planted. Continue reading

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Easing Over

It is never easy to let go, to know that the last conversation upon this earth has been had. Continue reading

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