Jesus
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The Wisdom of Old
A sound mind is what You give Yet the sounds in my head are anything but kind Making me spin and jump miles and days ahead Right past moments of joy that would leave me breathless It I remembered to breathe in the first place And I know this must not be what You had Continue reading
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Viral Jesus
If Jesus came in the flesh today, thousands would stand in line in hopes of getting tickets to his sold-out stadium event. Waiting in the cold, shivering from the chill and the anticipation, hoping to get a glimpse of this high profile celebrity. After watching his Facebook Live video that went viral of him healing Continue reading
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The Only Cure For Despair
Every human is confronted with the same decisions: believe the dark thoughts or cast them out. And I am realizing that intersection faced multiple times a day is really what makes or breaks a life. I am reminded again, you can have the whole world but lose your soul. Money is an illusion. Adventure can Continue reading
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Enough For Today
Moments of clarity come, falling into my heart like snow, covering the dust and dirt, the anxiety and confusion, creating a new landscape of white. I am thankful. Deep down in my bones. My boot-covered feet crunch as I walk across our lawn to the mailbox, making new footprints in the white powder. I inhale Continue reading
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Where’s Jesus?
Every night, I pray with Aurelia. Sometimes it feels special and even sacred. Mostly it feels like routine, and occasionally just meaningless words. Lately, she’s been talking and communicating and understanding more than I could have imagines for someone who is not even 2 yet. The past week or so, when we pray she asks Continue reading
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Sex & Shame (Jesus was a Bastard)
I am going to talk about sex. And adultery. And abortion. (Just another fun Tuesday night.) I don’t do stuff like that on my blog. I am not really a fan of controversy. But I feel like I need to add my voice to the madness. We’ve all read the headlines lately. So many emotions. So Continue reading
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I Believe in Breakfast
when I don’t know what to believe I believe in breakfast I believe the day is better when you eat real food eggs, bacon fruit, toast real butter coffee, of course I believe beginnings matter food matters despite all the changes in my mind I still know one dark day God died history paused frozen with Continue reading
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I Love Jesus, But Sometimes I am an Atheist
The most terrible acts in the world happen when human beings treat each other as less than human. A Chinese orphanage where special needs children had their limbs tied to hard kitchen chairs and left alone all day to stare at the walls. A dirty room on the top of a brothel in India, where Continue reading
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The Beauty of Past Tense
Today yellow leaves drift downward and scatter upon the parking lot outside my window. I read a few sentences of words the God-man said once, words he still says, over and over. “Take heart, for I have overcome the world.” “Have overcome.” Not, “Will overcome.” Never has past tense felt so comforting. Never have words been Continue reading
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A Textbook Can’t Hold You at Night
Sometimes you have to swing to both sides of extreme before coming back to the middle, Back to the heart, the beating and bleeding, the real life. Many of my beliefs I held fast on to about God, About who I am, Have been too slippery to hold on to. They weren’t solid enough to Continue reading
Brooke Gale LouvieR 