Tag: pastors
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Transformation is Real
A friend asked me to write a blog post for his blog (http://transformation-is-real.com/). I was happy to be asked because I love to write, but I found this assignment taking me on an emotional journey. I’m glad to share it with you and even more glad to be telling this story from where I am…
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Losses
Today I led the funeral for a woman whom I hardly knew. I had just met her in the last weeks of her life and was glad to bring her prayers and communion as her health steadily declined. When I gathered with the family to pray before the service, I noted my heart wasn’t breaking…
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Joe
I was not surprised when I heard Joe’s heart stopped beating. We all knew that his heart beat in time with Audrey’s heart and when she died a few months earlier, it seemed so had the spark of his own life. He spent the last few months journeying through the motions of his days. He…
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Moving Day
I drove up and saw the moving truck was already parked in the driveway. She had enlisted help from me and three others – all friends in the community. She is a pastor, too – which means there were many boxes of books, plenty of religious art, scads of paperwork from this seminar and that…