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At the intersection of Sacred and Profane

2022/10/09

Endurance, not just for ultramarathoners

Endurance. The very word strikes fear into the hearts of many of us. We don’t like to be put in a position to endure, at least I don’t. I want to be in a position where the only thing I can do is thrive . . . preferably without too much work on my part. […]

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2022/04/17

Thanksgiving?

So why am I talking about thanksgiving? You note there is a lower case “t” in the last sentence but there is a strongly implied upper cast “T.” Hadley and I used to work with a number of college students back in the 90s and early 00s. College students can almost always be convinced to […]

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2020/10/11

Thanksgiving and gratitude

Today is Thanksgiving Sunday so it seemed a natural thing to reflect on being thankful. I found myself led past the usual people and things for which I’m thankful as I reflected on our Old Testament lesson in comparison to the Philippians reading. We find it easy, or at least I do, to be a […]

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