Tag: #reflectionsonshuffleplay
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Something’s Always Wrong
Ghosts. Ghouls. Goblins. Gremlins. Witches. Werewolves. Devils. Demons. Throughout literature and all of history we hear of the mysterious and the unexplainable: houses haunted; people possessed and spells being cast. Find the most sensible people who are able to reason out most things that happen and you will still find most have a ghost story…
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Running Up That Hill (A Deal With God)
Reflections on Shuffle-Play Bills to be paid. Waiting for test results. A loved one in the hospital. A marriage waffling under pressures. How do we not worry when there are so many things to worry about? The scriptures offer us words of wisdom regarding worry. If we know that God provides for the birds of…
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God is a Bullet
Reflections on Shuffle-Play The first years I was a pastor, during the worship service my mind was usually racing to whatever was coming next in the service. If I was finishing the opening litany, I was thinking about what hymn was coming up. If the offering was winding down, I checked to make sure I…
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All You Need is Love
Reflections on Shuffle-Play (Written in 2007) We decided that our older son, Owen, needed a little chair for the living room. Sure, he can climb up on the big couch or sit on the floor just fine – but we wanted him to have his own chair. So, we hunted around a little bit and…
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You Got Gold
Reflections on Shuffle-Play We had three apple trees out behind the little house I grew up in. The surest sign of spring each year was when the apple blossoms would begin to bloom – even though there would still usually be snow in the corners of the garden, I would move my bed over…
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Believe
Reflections on Shuffle-Play Beverly suffers from multiple sclerosis. She’s been confined to a bed for the last twenty-five years or so. She can still move her hands and turn her head but relies on caregivers at the nursing home for everything else. Josh is twenty-four years old. He has muscular dystrophy and soon will require…
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All that We Let In
Reflections on Shuffle-Play Winter seems to have started early this year. Some years we can squeeze in some warmish days even in November, but not this year. By the end of October, snow began to slip down from the sky now and then and by the time November started, it wasn’t melting away between snowfalls.…
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Little Silver Ring
Reflections on Shuffle-Play The music box stopped working. It no longer makes a sound. My mom did not have a lot of fancy things. She and my dad lived very simply – partly out of necessity since Dad couldn’t work for most of his adult life due to his physical and emotional disabilities, but also…
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Leave the Light On
Reflections on Shuffle-Play The season of white, gray, and cold has begun. The wind is whirling snow past my window and clawing at the front doors of the church. Every now and then, the building creaks, but my office is warm. It is the brief lull between Reformation Sunday and All Saints Sunday. My mother…