Tag: love
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Comfort in the Tragedies of Life
I am retired from ministry, or I have taken a break for a short period of time. I have spent time these past few months remembering all the special moments that occurred during my ministry. If I am honest there have been some very difficult moments and events. There is one moment that devastated both…
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MUSIC & EMOTIONS
Music plays a very important role in my life. Music saved me when I was struggling as a teenager. Music lifted me to the light when darkness seemed to surround me. My high school choir director, Mr. Witt brought music into my life and joy to my voice. There are pieces of music that still…
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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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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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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 Gift
When we moved from Corpus Christi to Pasadena, Texas in 1962, we left all our family behind. The fourth Christmas in 1964 was like all the others. Chris, Tim and I would ride our bikes down to the south end of Dewberry Lane to watch for that very familiar aqua blue 1958 Chevrolet station wagon.…
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The Day I Took Fight
My mom practically raised six kids on her own. As I have shared before our dad was a Merchant Marine. Dad went around the world seven times in both directions. While he experienced exotic countries and cities mom lived a life that was filled with difficult times. She managed this even when she was sick,…
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A Wish and a Tragedy
In April 1965 the Hickey family’s adventure on Dewberry Lane came to an end. The house at 2103 was for sale and the Hickey’s could not afford to buy it. So, we moved to 1216 Trimm Ave on the other side of the Strawberry and became renters, again. I was so upset that we were…
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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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Crisco
I blame the movie Da Vinci Code. If I hadn’t seen the car driving backwards through the streets of Paris, France I probably would not have known such a car existed. I wanted a SMART car, or as many have commented “half a car”. In October 2007 when SMART brought the car to Tulsa, Oklahoma…
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