This little guy is a baby blue jay and the reason he’s sporting the pointy punk do on the top of his head is because he’s distressed and the more distressed a blue jay becomes the higher the pointy peak on their head. How do I know this? Wikipedia. My go to source when I [...]

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I don’t want to be a downer in your day but I’ve been thinking a lot about death, dying and what comes after in recent days. I’ve been spending more time than the average bear ruminating on the fragility of the fleshy package that houses the essence of who we really are, and our all [...]

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Maybe I should ease into this post by doing my usual schtick of rambling around the edges before getting to the point, and there are times, believe it or not, when opinionated and straightforward me taps lightly around my beliefs because I know for those located in, or coming from, a conservative Christian tradition as [...]

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How long will grown men and women in this world keep drawing in their coloring books an image of God that makes them sad? – Meister Eckhart I’m not a big fan of coloring books for children, the ones with the thick black outlines with the white space between them that all but demands where [...]

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I understand the perfect love of God imperfectly. I’m setting down two basic truths here. One, that the love of God is perfect love, and two, that I will never be able to comprehend such love. By perfect love, I mean perrrrrrfect. A love that’s flawless, incomparable, and most excellent in all the world and [...]

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My stream of consciousness on the love of God begins. Jump into the water if you dare. God is Love. The love of God is at the forefront of God’s being. God doesn’t merely demonstrate love outward toward us, but the ground and substance of God’s being is Love. Love is more than an attribute [...]

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