Tag: peace
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End Times, Anxiety, and Hope
There is always a lot of talk about the End Times. And every generation thinks that theirs is going to be the last one. If we surveyed even the last 100 years, there are many different moments of global change, conflict, and cultural shifts that made people feel very similar to how it seems many…
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Why kids (and you) need fairy tales.
I think all of this, because it seems to me that fairy tales reveal to the mind of a child the true workings of life. I think fairy tales with all their wonder and imagination actually train a child to think better about the world they live in. They may not be real, but they…
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3 things Covid has taught me
12 months ago society got flipped around and we fell headlong into this continuing pandemic. It’s a joke at this point to say that we didn’t expect it to be this long, but here we are. For some of us, it has been the hardest 12 months we can remember, for others it has been…
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The Loudest Voice
Photo Cred: Katie Nicolle Photography It’s a typical Tuesday morning. It’s around 8:30, and I am about to go to Show & Tell – a local coffee shop where I tend to write my sermons. I am in the bathroom brushing my teeth, not really paying attention to much around me as I think through…
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Listening as Loving
My wife and I were in a bit of a disagreement recently, when she stopped in the middle of it and said to me, “If you were counselling a couple right now, what would you be saying?”. This was her way of telling me that I need to stop, use some wisdom, and get out…
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Is Inner Peace Possible?
With all the craziness that we encounter, read, and at present, see more every day it seems, we are often left with feelings of hopelessness, rage, dread, and large amounts of stress. When these things are present in us, we look for ways to diffuse them, we search for a sense of what come call ‘inner…
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