Category: Rambling
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Warning Shots: 10 subtle actions your marriage needs to pay attention to.
You’ve opened my ears so I can listen. Psalm 40:6 I’m an aficionado of military movies. And there’s certain lines and terms that you can count on hearing frequently. For some reason, especially in movies involving ships, you’ll hear the term: warning shot. A warning shot is a military and/or police term describing an intentionally harmless…
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Unsubscribe: 6 things you should unsubscribe from your life.
I’m in a mode right now. I have been cleaning up my email life by “unsubscribing” from all kinds of stuff. Restaurants, retailers, and random businesses are the latest victims to my shedding off of my email weight. It’s not that I am boycotting them. I’m just done. This is going to sound petty, I’m…
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Eviction Notices: 8 Things to evict from your mind to help your marriage.
For as he thinks within himself, so he is. Proverbs 23:7 I can’t say that I’ve ever been given an eviction notice. But I assume it’s not a good thing to get one. In my lifetime, I’ve had my power shut off before. I’ve even had collections call. But to get an eviction notice, that’s something…
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Pastors, what are we protecting? 8 Reasons why being vulnerable is better.
Have you ever heard or read something that shocked you, but the shock wasn’t necessarily in the statement. The shock was the fact that it tapped into your past. Our memories are so powerful. It amazes me how one moment in the present can send you back to a place many years before, but in…
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“You are the answer to your own prayer”: 7 prayers you may be the answer for.
“Prayer reminds us that we are human while also reminding us that God is God.” Charlie Dates In daily prayer life, people can tend to miss a couple of things. First, we miss out on some very important aspects of prayer. The largest portion of our prayer shouldn’t be spent on petition (presenting requests). In fact,…
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The “Try”: 10 Things you should TRY in your marriage.
My wife married a sci-fi geek. I’m not ashamed of it. I embrace it. Anne, not so much. In his endeavor to become a Jedi, Luke finds himself needing to get trained by the best. It is here we get one of the most well-known figures in all of the Star Wars universe: Yoda. For us geeks, his…
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Pain is Our Common Denominator: 5 things I want to share with you about pain
Do you feel pain? Have you ever been in agony? From stubbing your toe in the middle of the night to having your heart-broken by someone, it seems we all have experienced elements of pain. The rare medical condition of CIP (Congenital Insensitivity to Pain) exists. It’s one of many physical statuses in which a person cannot feel (and has never…
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Frozen Tears: Dealing with loss during the holidays!
It’s been only a few days… Christmas is the day after tomorrow, yet, with grandma not here, it doesn’t feel like the holiday is close at all. The grieving process is different with Grandma Price. The timing of finding out about her cancer…the quickness of her departure….the approaching of the holiday season… I find myself……
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Passive Aggression…and it’s killing your marriage.
Passive aggressive behavior is all about one simple word: disconnect. It’s the “disconnect” between what is being said and what is being done. Unfortunately, all around us, marriages are suffering from it. There are many different ways in which passive aggressive behavior can be expressed in our marriage. What I’ve got written down here is a…
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Sucking The Joy From Your Life! 10 things I want you to know about comparison.
Anne and I have different running styles. The fact is this: We love to run, but there really is nothing similar about the WAY we run. Anne runs much greater distances but at a slower pace. I run at a much faster pace but at shorter distances. When we run together, the distance she wants to run makes me…
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