I have a lot of faults. Ask my family or my closest friends and they’ll certainly agree. I’m flawed, but one thing is true: I’m me. I’m not trying to justify said flaws; rather, I’m writing this to you, personally, as a form of encouragement. Do you know what else is true? The Lord knows […]
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I’ve been trying (unsuccessfully) to come up with one redeeming value of labels; I mean, other than the obvious utility of being able to communicate using nouns during proper speech (it is, after all, convenient to refer to an object, place, or person by name rather than point to it and grunt like a baby).
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God has given us music for a reason. I’ve often thought of music as filling in the gap between where perfect expression thrives and verbal languages fail. It’s almost magical at times, what music can accomplish in the soul. Like most things in this life, God uses music as an illustration of how powerful and
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“If you could read my mind right now!” Have you ever had someone say that to you? Have you ever said those words to someone else? It’s a funny proposition, isn’t it? I suppose in many ways, the fun is in the speculation, as the exclamation is like an invitation to make guesses about another
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“So, what do you want to be when you grow up?” Did you ever get sick of being asked that question as a youngster? I did. As an adult, in retrospect, I see it as a loaded question. What I mean is that the implications are twofold. First, at what age is it appropriate to stop asking
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There are two reasons to shoot black and white photography. One reason is because you think it looks old fashioned and it’s a cool effect. A better reason to shoot black and white photography is because of the lessons it can teach you. Black and White Photography teaches you about values. We’re not talking about
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This story takes place in a two-dimensional world. There once was a square. The square was lonely all by itself, so God gave it company, a circle. He told the square to love and care for the circle, even when it wasn’t easy, and the circle to respect the square’s expression of love, even when
Following the completion of my stint in the U.S. Air Force, I was tasked with, as they say, “working my way through college”. Until being hired into a formal engineering internship, I worked primarily as a waiter at the breakfast diner my mom owned and operated. I also worked nights at a Chinese restaurant not
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