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If We Have Not Love …

If We Have Not Love …

I don’t usually write posts like this, and I’ll probably make some people mad, but … here goes.
These words of love and compassion from Shane Claiborne still ring in my ears as I grieve over the tragedy in Haiti.
“God intends for the church to be the hands and feet of Jesus in today’s world [...]

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Once More Across Home Plate

Once More Across Home Plate

I turned 51 a couple of weeks ago. I like birthdays. And no cancer survivor in their right mind complains about getting another year older.
It’s kind of like a lopsided baseball game — even though the winning team is far ahead, they still try to cross home plate one more time. You can certainly [...]

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Sunset or Sunrise?

Sunset or Sunrise?

It was a beautiful sunset — or was it a sunrise?
I watched it from our deck of my family’s house overlooking Greers Ferry Lake. Sara Ann was about to begin her senior year in high school, my last school year with a child at home. Prelude to the empty nest.
Between the uncharacteristically cool breeze, the [...]

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Repp Ties, Baseball Hats and a Life Well-Lived

Repp Ties, Baseball Hats and a Life Well-Lived

Twice each year I get very sentimental about my Daddy; the week of the anniversary of his death and on his birthday, October 4. He died June 13, 1993, after a sudden, completely unexpected massive cerebral hemorrhage. Before that day his health was perfect, he was an active man, an avid golfer and led a [...]

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Home

Home

I usually avoid these neighborhoods.
This day was different. My 16-year-old daughter, Sara Ann, five of her friends and I were in Atlanta for a church youth weekend. We left the church to get out into the city and learn about poverty and homelessness. Our first stop was an area near downtown Atlanta where the homeless [...]

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