• Trying NOT to Be

    If it killed me I was determined not to be a messy Mercy. I was NOT going to be someone who needed a GPS, a map, and a “call a friend” lifeline to get from their home to the grocery store.  I was not going to be an emotional geyser every five minutes.  I was not going to be disorganized and…

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  • Opposites Stretch You

    #3 in the “Mysterious God” series   John Adams was a visionary.  He saw the future of America in ways that others had not even thought about.  He was articulate and forceful in his beliefs, he knew what needed to be done and went to great personal sacrifice to achieve it.  He lived for months…

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  • A Stagnant Spirit

    #2 in the “Mysterious God” series I love the imagery in John chapter 5.  There is a pool in Jerusalem by the sheep market.  The name of the pool is Bethesda.  On any normal day the water would be decently clean, used for bathing, and further upstream at the upper pool, for drinking.  But every…

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  • #1 in the “Mysterious God” Series I believe the primary reason is because He is. You may say, “well, of course.  We all know God is unfathomable.”  It’s an easy concept with which to agree, but a much harder one to truly believe.  I think we are often quite blissfully unaware of the chasms that…

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  • Design and Decisions

    For years I blamed it on the dream. Following that dream was why I crashed and burned, why I nearly had a nervous breakdown, why I made a ridiculous move and then had to come back home in pieces. I distinctly remember the long drive back to my hometown, every mile between me and the…

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