Posts Tagged with: spiritual growth

deep earthy honey-soaked butterscotchy royal autumn gold

By Posted in - dogs & favorites & general & random & Uncategorized on October 14th, 2018 2 Comments

Gold is my favorite color. And before all you ladies say AMEN, I don’t mean jewelry-gold (although that is quite nice and I am certainly not opposed to it). I also don’t mean sunshine or …

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a very good place to start

By Posted in - favorites & general & Uncategorized on September 2nd, 2018 2 Comments

Before I repost some of my other favorite pieces, it makes sense to first retell the story of how this journey as The Jesus Gypsy began. It is, quite frankly, my very favorite story to …

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once upon a time

By Posted in - general & random & scripture & Uncategorized & writing on August 25th, 2018 11 Comments

HOWDY STRANGER!!!  Hope you are well. I was thinking about you this morning and deeply missing the good ol’ days when I got to use my words for CREATING and CONNECTING instead of GRADING and …

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on Willie Nelson, Puppy Dogs, and the Holy Spirit

By Posted in - books & dogs & general & music & Uncategorized on May 10th, 2017 8 Comments

I am essentially an expert emotional escape artist. I am also a professional performer.

“PAY NO ATTENTION TO THE MAN BEHIND THE CURTAIN,” my life has shouted through the years.

We moved around like gypsies growing up …

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victory celebration

By Posted in - general on November 1st, 2015 3 Comments

 

me on Baptism Sunday (except really Taylor in a VMA awarded music video)

I am a sucker for baptisms.  They get me every time.  I don’t know why I even bother to wear makeup …

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roots

By Posted in - general & scripture & talks & writing on May 21st, 2015 3 Comments

And now, just as you accepted Christ Jesus as your Lord, you must continue to follow him. Let your roots grow down into him, and let your lives be built on him. Then …

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there is a season

By Posted in - general & scripture & talks on May 15th, 2015 3 Comments

Remember that late 60’s hit from The Byrds, Turn, Turn, Turn?

“To everything (turn, turn, turn)
There is a season (turn, turn, turn)
And a time to every purpose, under heaven…”

 

We usually think of that song as an …

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an onion, a flashlight, and a bar of soap

By Posted in - general & scripture & talks & writing on November 5th, 2014 5 Comments

 

Jesus is not who you think He is.

But if it is any consolation, He isn’t who I thought He was, either.

The more I read about him in scripture, the more I sit and talk with …

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in all the in-between

By Posted in - general & random on October 2nd, 2014 4 Comments

I don’t mean to be controversial, but I am not a huge fan of Oreos (I know, I know- the scandal.)  It is just that food items that have one texture on the outside and another on …

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hungry

By Posted in - general on September 14th, 2013 0 Comments

I love being hungry. Not physically of course (I don’t like THAT at all). I mean I love being spiritually hungry.

I think faith has its seasons, or at lease mine seems to. There are times of hunger, …

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