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God’s playfulness

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February 2025

February 23, 2025

Jesus Loves Me as Wide as His Arms Can Stretch

If you dare to believe your God, your Lord in heaven is truly God and...

January 2025

January 05, 2025

Is God in My Struggle?

God is funny. I think I can see him smile and simply saying-and always in...

November 2024

November 23, 2024

Thanksgiving? What is it?

What is it? I don't think it's a real secret to anyone, many people, including...

September 2024

September 27, 2024

God’s Metaphors for Our Freedom, Bought by His Son-Jesus

Why would God, who loves us so much, sending his son Jesus to die on...

July 2024

July 21, 2024

Jesus In Men, Who are We?

Let’s talk the basics first, keeping us within the lane of this short discussion—Jesus living...

June 2023

June 18, 2023

Fathers Day

 FATHERS DAY Being today is Fathers Day and the timing of things in this world...

March 2023

March 12, 2023

Walk On!

Sometimes, the song just makes you want to dance. God, in my belief, made music...

November 2022

November 08, 2022

Sometimes….

SOMETIMES.... Sometimes, it’s okay to turn the car radio off and talk to yourself. Sometimes,...

October 2022

October 15, 2022

God loves Dogs

I must use what my dogs taught me and apply it to the world. Because,...

September 2022

September 11, 2022

It is Okay to Just Be

  It rained last night. IT'S OKAY TO JUST BE Just as I crawled into...

September 04, 2022

If I was President

IF I WAS PRESIDENT ‘If I was President’ is a term we hear a lot...

August 2022

August 29, 2022

I Have a Fantasy…

I have a fantasy. Actually, I have several, but I want to share with you...

August 07, 2022

Listen to the Doctor

‘Listen to the doctor.’ For those of you who have ridden this trail with me...

July 2022

July 15, 2022

Can Christians have Sex Before Marriage?

CAN CHRISTIANS HAVE SEX BEFORE MARRIAGE???? I was asked to write on a topic for...

April 2022

April 13, 2022

Sometimes, We Feel as if We’re getting Swallowed

Sometimes, in our seasons of living, we have difficulty seeing the season itself and get...

March 2022

March 31, 2022

Taking the Opportunity

I just want to say up front, grandchildren are wonderful. But I also want to...

March 12, 2022

Please-No! Don’t let it be for Me!!

How bad does it have to be when you have to advertise if anyone saw...

March 04, 2022

Floundering or Living Large?

I think we all wonder if we, where we are at, are sometimes floundering.

February 2022

February 10, 2022

Turn Four is Our Finest Hour!

THIS COULD BE OUR FINEST HOUR! In life and in life's partnerships, chances are one...

February 06, 2022

I Don’t Want To….

...DON'T WANT TO.... I voted with myself and have made a life decision about, well,...

January 2022

January 09, 2022

God is a playful God

WHEN I WAS A KID.... When I was a kid, Elliot, Darren, sometimes Nelson, but...

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