Category: forgiveness
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Do Overs
As an elementary school administrator, I often deal with student discipline issues. Sitting across from a red-faced child, I read the teacher’s note: “When asked to pick up the play area and return to his desk, Johnny kicked me in the shin, screamed ‘Leave me alone!’ and ran out of the room.” As I offer…
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Napkins Needed
One loaded hot dog just the way I like it. Check. Now, for some napkins, because I’m gonna need a few! Scanning the convenience store counter top, I don’t find any. But there’s a sign, pointing me in the right direction–literally. It’s a good thing God offers spiritual napkins, because we often need a few.…
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Are You My Daddy?
One of my favorite books as a child was, Are You My Mother?, by P.D. Eastman. In the story, a baby bird hatches while his mother is away from the nest. He falls to the ground and immediately begins to search for her, but doesn’t know what she looks like. The little hatchling meets several…
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Weeds Are Flowers Too
“Weeds are flowers too, once you get to know them.” A.A. Milne If the guys on my dorm hallway at seminary had been the twelve disciples, then *Sean Fitzpatrick would have been Peter. Too say that ‘Surly Sean,’ as he was known, was rough around the edges is putting it kindly. Brash, quick tempered and…
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Must Repentance Happen All at Once?
My blogging buddy Jeffrey has a daily series where he shares a scripture passage and then provides some brief thoughts. The topic this July 4th was, “Let it go,”– based on Colossians 3:13–and it was all about forgiving the faults of others because, after all, Jesus does the same for us. Jeffrey is quite the…
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There’s Something ALL Over the Floor!
For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, declares the Lord. As the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts. (Isaiah 55:8-9 NIV) The other day I was hungry, so I went into the kitchen and made…
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