Tag: #reflectionsonshuffleplay
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You’re My Best Friend
Reflections on Shuffle-Play (where I write each day inspired by a song from that morning’s run) I’m not at my Shiny Glittery Most excellent Very Best State of Being Today. Not even close. Pretty sure if I were to step On the scale today It would say I weigh One thousand pounds. I don’t want…
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If Not Now
Reflections on Shuffle-Play I could sum up the gospel for this Sunday in one sentence. Here it is: We are each given gifts from God, and we are expected to do something with those gifts in order to grow them, however we can – not for the benefit of only ourselves, but for the benefit…
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When You Were Young
Reflections on Shuffle-Play The blog I wrote yesterday, “She’s a Beauty”, came on like a fever. I had to write it. I woke up with the thoughts needing to be come out. Like labor pains, it couldn’t be avoided or delayed, I just had to sit down and write. Then, unlike most of my blog…
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North Dakota
Reflections on Shuffle-Play Secret in the Church Tower #3 Johanne Johanne sat in Bakken Kirke that hot July morning. She did not remember it ever being so hot in Norway as it was here in America. All the windows were open but there was no breeze drifting over the Dakota prairie. She looked out the…
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Message in a Bottle
Reflections on Shuffle-Play She didn’t see the sign on the road that pointed toward Bakken Lutheran Church but she did notice out of the corner of her eye a tall steeple off in the distance. She looked down at her phone and sure enough, it pointed out that she needed to turn in that direction.…
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Hurt
Reflections on Shuffle-Play Depression is no fun. It slinks in on a perfectly lovely day and hovers over everything, putting a slightly minor tune over the notes of each hour. I’ve learned over the years how to take care of myself in the midst of recurring depression. I know to be gentle with myself, to…
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A Long December
Reflections on Shuffle-Play Earl was a widower I visited regularly in Texas. He was a staunch Republican who had been a successful businessman and also loved theology. He was always working on some research or paper. He would often give me books to read after he was done with them. He had a brilliant mind…
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Peace Train
Reflections on Shuffle-Play I saw a bumper sticker in Colorado once that made me laugh out loud. It said, “Christ is coming, look busy!” Some denominations spend a great deal of time talking about Christ’s return. They predict it regularly, using the certainty of it to scare people into ‘right’ living. I’ve almost tended to…
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The 59th Street Bridge Song
Reflections on Shuffle-Play I listened to a Ted talk recently about the importance of allowing oneself to be bored sometimes. In these modern times it is possible to fill in the cracks of every day with something. If we do have time to be still, so often the phone is out and we are shuffling…
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Scar Tissue
I have a scar on my index finger from a car accident back in 1996. One minute, my cute Isuzu trooper was upright and cruising down a road in northern Minnesota and the next I was skating across glare ice until I landed upside down in the ditch. In the sub-zero November temperatures I assessed…