Category: Disciples

To Belong...

3/12/2019

What does it mean to belong? The Internet gives a plethora of meanings including owning something like a car or being part of a club. Most everyone wants to belong to something because it makes our presence in the world real and vital. We are well trained in identifying the groups or labels in which we belong based on categories like the color of our skin or our gender. Think about all of the times we are asked for our information that requires us to check a box identifying us as male/female, Caucasian or Black or Latino or divorced/single/married. All of these labels identify us in some way in an official capacity and yet these groups can also separate us in thinking I am “this” but not “that.”

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Risen Indeed...

4/10/2018

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We have reached the end of another Lenten season. We have walked with Jesus through the holiest of weeks of Jesus’ betrayal, denial, brutality and pain and celebrated or rather rejoiced at the empty tomb with his disciples. Jesus Is Risen! In case you hadn’t noticed, Easter is my absolute favorite time or holiday or Sunday of the year. The word triumphant echoes in my brain as I celebrate Christ’s victory over sin and death. My victory of over sin and death even though I am not worthy to claim it!

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The Rest of the Story....

3/6/2018

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Last week a few friends and I were discussing how often we have judged or misjudged people and how frustrated we were with ourselves for doing so. Each of us gave examples of people we had judged according to their skin color, cultural differences, their appearance or even their weight. We recognized that by being so critical of people we were not being good examples of Christianity. I believe that most of us have been guilty of unkind thoughts and comparisons of “those people.” You know who they are right? To judge anyone who does fit what we deem to be “normal” or in other words, like us. Our group agreed that we were going to work very intentionally to change the way we see people, to look at them through a lens of love and respect and not of judgment.

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Fitting Fine...

12/12/2017

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Have you ever taken a personality test? I love taking them because I usually learn something new about the way I tick. One of the tests pointed out that it is easy for me to get distracted and jump from task to task or thought to thought. That personality recognition threw me for a loop because it is so true. Shortly after learning the test results, I was ironing something and before I was finished, I went on the hunt for a birthday card to send to a friend. Then back to ironing when suddenly another thought popped into my head and off I went. Now what the test also revealed is that I will eventually finish my task however it will be done my way, which may not be the traditional way of doing it. It has always puzzled me how answering a number of questions for these tests can reveal a lot about me and how I function. They are not always 100% but most of the time they are pretty close.

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Peace Be Still...

5/30/2017

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Something special happens inside of me when I stand in the ocean’s swirling waters and gaze into the endless horizon. Often, the calm warmth of the blue water calms me as it laps gently at my feet. Sometimes the waves crash into the beach with determination and power and it reaches deep inside of me mirroring the inner turmoil that longs to crash to the surface. In the turbulent waters, when life’s problems build up and threaten to overcome my spirit, it is in these dancing waters, I hear the words of Jesus, “Peace! Be still!” (Mk. 4:39).

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To Belong...

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Fitting Fine...

Peace Be Still...

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