It’s a crazy dark day, the kind we get in Portland in the winter where you have to keep the lights on in the house all day because of the thick gray haze blanketing the world. It can get into your skin. So on this rainy day, I’m pondering about musings. And about how most things in life come down
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I had a dream a while back that won’t let me forget it. Truth is, I’ve been running from it. It was one of those vivid disturbing dreams, and for no apparent reason other than its scary lifelikeness in smashing technicolor. The brightness of the whole thing is its strongest impression, even these several weeks that have passed. A lamp
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“As a boy, I’d learned that it’s the Latin, and maybe a Greek, word for ‘suffering’ that gives rise to our word ‘passion.’ Etymologically, the opposite of suffering is, therefore, ‘apathy’; the Passion of the Christ, say, is a reminder, even a proof, that suffering is something that a few high souls embrace to try to lessen the pains of
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“How do you begin? The answer is simple: you decide to. Then you push back your sleeves and start … It will be completely awful. It will be unreadable [excrement]! You won't have a clue how it will amount to anything, ever. And to that, I say, Welcome. You just do it anyway.” — Anne Lamott This
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“My days are like a lengthening shadow, and I wither away like grass.” – Psalm 102:11 I’m just back from discussing the future focus of our church with about 2 dozen aged Presbyterians this weekend. Isn’t it amazing how we’re all strangers, even to ourselves? And yet we all have an important job to do…. I agreed to take part because
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