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Posted on October 29, 2018October 25, 2018

Losers Make Good Dancers

You turned my mourning into dancing. Psalm 30: 11 If you ask me, a lot of Christians worship the idol of “Positivity.” They’re afraid to grieve and are self-medicating on happiness. Though I advocate no grim view of God or the practice of sour spirituality I just think that in our effort to avoid despondency, …

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Posted on November 18, 2016

Losers Make Some Of The Best Dancers

You turned my mourning into dancing. Psalm 30:11 If you ask me, a lot of Christians worship the idol of “Positivity.” They’re afraid to grieve and are self-medicating on happiness. Though I advocate no grim view of God or the practice of sour spirituality I just think that in our effort to avoid despondency, we …

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Posted on December 3, 2012

The Day I Got My “Whatever” Back (part one)

Have you ever had a teenager (or an adult acting like one) say to you with a sort of sneer, “Whatever!”? In case you didn’t already know, this is not really an expression of respect. It’s right up there with, “Yeah, well…” or “And I’m supposed to care?” I banned the word from use in …

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Posted on November 17, 2012March 29, 2019

Making Adjustments (part one)

I’m not usually nostalgic about my birthday. But the other day I was in my car the day before the milestone of my fifty-eighth, and on the radio came the Beatles song:  “When I’m Sixty-four.” You know the one… When I get older, losing my hair, Many years from now, Will you still be sending …

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