Category: Rambling
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My Marriage is Terribly Inconvenient!
I’ve been married 16 years. I love being married and I can’t imagine life without Anne. We have had some great times and moments. We laugh a lot together. We have two fantastic children and we are blessed to serve in an amazing church is their pastor. But I’ll say this is of my marriage: It…
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Marriage Blog: You’re my partner not my project.
I like to fix things. I can’t always say it fix things correct the first time. I wish I had the engineer mindset of my father or my grandfather possess They had the ability to take anything apart and put it right back together. But I do my best. Typically, I’ll google answers and watch…
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“Warning: Choking Hazard” New series starting @kalamazoofirst
As a kid, the idea of choking frightened me. If you’ve never choked on anything, you’ve never felt the sheer panic of fighting to regain the breath of life that we take so for granted. Just one act of “choking” will have you monitoring the size of food going into your mouth and the amount…
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Marriage blog: “Too busy: The art of abusing with neglect.”
Sobering moments. There’s no other words for those times or events that send us back to earth to the real world we are living in. This is what I read in an article that my youth pastor sent me. Long story short (you can read it in its entirety here), a CEO was known for working…
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Marriage Blog: Is it easy being married to me?
It’s a simple question to ask…But perhaps, it’s the most ignored question in marriage. “Is it easy being married to me?” Have you asked yourself that? I try to avoid the question. Why? Because of two reasons: 1. I’d rather shift the focus to my wife so, therefore, she has to be the one to…
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Marriage Blog: Faking Your Death
I read quite a few blogs and articles on marriage. I’m always intrigued by titles. Then one came across my screen… “Groom Poorly Fakes Death to Get Out of Wedding” Clicking on the link will introduce a small story about a poorly approached attempt to circumvent getting out of a wedding. When I think I’ve heard…
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You’ll never be the perfect spouse…so stop trying.
Maybe you provided the perfect date. Perhaps you found the perfect gift. Possibly, you cleaned up the house for your spouse to come home perplexed in surprise over what was done without asking. You spoke the love language of your spouse flawlessly. You stand there in your cape taking in the glory of your title.…
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From the heart of a depressed pastor…
I’ll say it up front: I’m a pastor. I deal with depression. From the beginning of this blog I’ll say this: There is no way I can compare what I deal with to the likes of what others or yourself may go through. But it’s what I personally face from time to time. If you…
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Marriage Blog: The Pre-nup Mind
“It’s mine!” It is that familiar phrase yelled by my children. Every time you hear it, you get annoyed. The problem is you’re not sure what’s more frustrating: them yelling and screaming or the fact that you remember when you did the same thing. We were once at the age where we fought with siblings or friends…
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Dirty Laundry Can Ruin Your Marriage
You’ve seen it and I’ve seen it. If you are involved in ANY type of social network, you’re going to have it flashed in front of you. Some of you deal with it in work. Others deal with it in the neighborhood. I see it in church a…
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