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Read MoreWaiting For The Payoff
With face mask guarding mouth and nose, gloves on hands, old jeans and a sweatshirt, and my worn-out, grungy old slip-on shoes on my feet, I dared today to go where few normally dare to go. I cleaned the chicken coop. Scooped up shovels full of manure-soaked, feather-laden old wood chips and flung them out the door and directly into the compost pile. There, with a little good fortune, this foul-smelling...
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Read MoreForward Looking
When we built this house, I planned ahead. Other than an extra-deep bathtub in which to soak off the aches and pains of age, we chose nothing fancy or expensive. Four kids and not a lot of spare cash compelled us to keep things simple – a fact that, to be honest, I somewhat regret now. In the interest of saving money, we chose just about the simplest design possible: a straight-ahead rectangle with...
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Read MoreTime Flies – Probably As Always
Today my son Jon turns 31, and we are amazed at how time flies by. It was just yesterday, it seems, when he came home from the hospital in that little knit cap, with that cute scrape on the end of his nose. Always, it seems, older people seem to be stunned at how the younger generation is aging. I have vague memories of aunts and uncles and grandmothers marveling at how big and old I was becoming –...
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Read MoreWe Should Learn This Verse – Desiring God
We Should Learn This Verse Indeed, I must learn this verse. Or these verses. Jeremiah 32:39-41 39 I will give them one heart and one way, that they may fear me forever, for their own good and the good of their children after them. 40 I will make with them an everlasting covenant, that I will not turn away from doing good to them. And I will put the fear of me in their hearts, that they may not...
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Read MoreDirtiest Jobs
There’s a TV show, I think, about a guy who goes out and does the dirtiest jobs out there. I’ve never sat and watched it, but I have seen it on as someone in my house streams it on Netflix. There was one recently about caring for pigs. That looked pretty disgusting, I must say, and having lived in close proximity to a pig farm for a year not long after we moved back to Minnesota, I would have...
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Read MoreCrisp, Clear, and Fall
The deck is not done yet, but it is getting there. And this morning I am sitting in my favorite folding chair – a Father’s Day present some years ago, I think – on this crisp and clear fall morning, watching the night become day, a cup of hot chocolate on the table beside me to stave off the chill. A puff of cloud is zipping past over the trees to the east; the waning moon is high over...
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Read MoreAnytime, Anyplace
A snipping tool. That’s what I was looking for at Menard’s this morning, standing in one of the many hardware aisles, facing down toward, of all things, the Halloween displays of ghouls and ghosts all lit up and bobbing up and down on cables or whatever. I had to cut some fence, and I couldn’t find the old, rusted out snipping tools I knew I already owned, so I was looking for a...
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Read MoreObserve, Look, And See Are Too Wimpy
I was sitting in the waiting room of the clinic at St. Luke’s, waiting to get in to see my lung doctor. One of the great things about a smartphone is that you are not bound to the silly magazines lying about on the tables around you. You have the ability to have nearly any reading material you’d like (at least, if you plan ahead some) on your hip, in your pocket, or in your purse. I took mine...
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Waiting For The Payoff
With face mask guarding mouth and nose, gloves on hands, old jeans and a sweatshirt, and my worn-out, grungy old slip-on shoes on my feet, I dared today to go where few normally dare to go. I cleaned the chicken...
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Forward Looking
When we built this house, I planned ahead. Other than an extra-deep bathtub in which to soak off the aches and pains of age, we chose nothing fancy or expensive. Four kids and not a lot of spare cash compelled us...
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Time Flies – Probably As Always
Today my son Jon turns 31, and we are amazed at how time flies by. It was just...
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We Should Learn This Verse – Desiring God
We Should Learn This Verse Indeed, I must learn this verse. Or these...
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Crisp, Clear, and Fall
The deck is not done yet, but it is getting there. And this morning I am...
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