Tag: faith
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Seeds of Joy
I brought my tree down to the shoreThe garland and the silver starTo find my peace and grieve no moreTo heal this place inside my heart On every branch I laid some breadAnd hungry birds filled up the skyThey rang like bells around my headThey sang my spirit back to life One tiny child can…
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Peace
I’m willing to bet that if I asked you to define the word peace, I’d get a variety of answers. In fact, I probably wouldn’t hear the same definition twice. We use the word peace to mean lots of different things, don’t we? If I asked you, “What’s the opposite of war, you’d probably answer…
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The Advent Candle of Hope: Hope is a Verb
In the season of Advent, we are invited to intentionally pay attention – to watch and wait – when we steadily light more candles each week in anticipation of the Light of God coming into this world. As much as this season is about preparing for Christmas – or even counter-culturally the return of Christ…
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My Bucket List
Life goes by so fast and there are things we want to do and places we want to see so we make a list, whether mentally or on a physical list. Maybe we have dreamed about doing something as wild as skydiving, white-water rafting or as simple as flying in a plane for the first…
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A Light in My Darkness
In my life journey I have encountered individuals whose goal in their life was to make my life miserable. I think we call them bullies. These individuals go out of their way to find ways to heap pain on their target, both physical and emotional without caring about the damage they do. I spent a…
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The Moment
I joined the Sam Rayburn High School Choir my junior year for the wrong reason. There was a girl, same reason I started going to church, that I was interested in dating. The only problem was she ended up in the girl’s chorus, and I was put in Concert Choir. The choirs DID NOT meet…
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A Glimpse of God
I have a very dear friend with whom I have very widely different political beliefs. It just so happens I was given the gift of also being his minister. We have gotten into some heavy discussions, in private, about our preferred candidates. These discussions never evolve into name calling or hateful comments. Once we each…
Hickey Theology 