Category: Redeemed
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Not What I Expected
Things are not at all what I expected. Not today, not this last year, or the last decade, or even really my whole life. I sit in bed tonight contemplating and having to take melatonin to help me sleep. Why because so many things keep running through my head, I can’t calm my mind. I…
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Who Do You Say I Am? Part 2
Earlier I have written about who Jesus is to me. I was inspired by the question asked in scripture where Jesus said “who do you say I am” and also by the message my pastor was sharing. Initially, my first thoughts were he’s my friend, my provider, my hiding place or refuge, my anchor, and…
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His Masterpiece
How are great things done? Are they easy or hard to accomplish? Usually, great things take time and effort, but they are attainable. They are accomplished, one step at a time. Michelangelo worked on the Sistine Chapel one picture at a time. It took him five years to finish the 343 painted figures on the…
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Retrospective
This evening for some reason I was getting in a very retrospective mindset. I don’t know if you’ve ever sat through a retrospective but in the IT world we do a Sprint, which is a cycle of work on a project, and we always do a retrospective when the cycle wraps up. We do this…
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True Restoration
Once I came across a beautiful mask, it was lovely but had been broken. The owner said to just throw it away, but I wanted to see if I could somehow glue it back together. My goal was to restore it to its former glory. Perhaps it could be fixed, put together again like new. …
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Not Till the Fire
One of the things I love to do with my children, by myself, or with a friend, well I just really loved doing is painting pottery. One thing I have learned through my experience with pottery is that the color you see that you paint prior to the firing of the pottery is not the…
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A Seat at the Table
Recently, I watched a cooking competition like I had not seen before. Unlike other competitions where the competitors were working to earn prize money or some other material award. This competition was for one thing. A seat at the table with the masters. With those masters that had judged them at one time or another…
Devotions For Real Life 