Category Archives: thoughts

Questions Without Answers

Good evening, Beloved Readers. Ever had a question that nagged at you? A question that demanded an answer, and like now? Yet in all your searching, you find there’s no answer? Welcome to tonight’s post. Tonight, I’m talking about questions … Continue reading

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Joy…

‘Nuff said. Peace and Joy! These things I have spoken to you, that my joy may be in you, and that your joy may be full. John 15:11 (Revised Standard Version)

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What’s Your Story?

Good evening Beloved Readers! You know why I still can go to church even though I’m still grieving? Even though I cannot see our son, Carrington in worship service? What strength God puts in me to go? It’s the people. … Continue reading

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The Hardest Commandment

Jesus said to his disciples, “As the Father has loved me, so I have loved you; abide in my love. If you keep my commandments, you will abide in my love, just as I have kept my Father’s commandments and … Continue reading

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It Isn’t The End

even when we were dead through our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ (by grace you have been saved), and raised us up with him, and made us sit with him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus, Ephesians … Continue reading

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In the Interim

When it was evening, there came a rich man from Arimathea, named Joseph, who was also a disciple of Jesus. He went to Pilate and asked for the body of Jesus; then Pilate ordered it to be given to him. … Continue reading

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In Search of Communion

He said to them, “I have eagerly desired to eat this Passover with you before I suffer Luke 22:15 (New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition) Today is Maundy Thursday, the day we commemorate the Last Supper (as well as Jesus’s … Continue reading

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A Grief Confronted

Hello and a blessed Palm Sunday! Today’s post is a continuation of yesterday’s post. Today, I’m at church. I didn’t feel like going; however, my wife, Crystal encouraged me to go. Right now, the minister is preaching from Matthew 26 … Continue reading

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A Grief Felt

I am I am in tears right now. I feel as if losing Carrington, God played some cruel joke on my wife and I. Next month would be Carrington’s 16th birthday. He would be getting ready to finish 10th grade … Continue reading

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Life Is… (Lent 2024 Version)

Life is bittersweet, and bittersweetness is greatly to be preferred to pure sweetness. In the classic iconography of Heaven, everyone is 33 years old, everyone looks the same, and everything is oddly dead, like plastic flower on a grave. In … Continue reading

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