Carried Along
A blog about real life through the lens of Christ
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I couldn’t believe what I was seeing. In a lifetime of living within an hour of this small resort town, I hadn’t seen anything like it. A rare flood engulfing the main street receded, leaving the street filled with river rock-not small river rock, but large rocks to be removed only with heavy equipment. We…
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I couldn’t believe what I was seeing. In a lifetime of living within an hour of this small resort town, I hadn’t seen anything like it. A rare flood engulfing the main street receded, leaving the street filled with river rock-not small river rock, but large rocks requiring heavy equipment to remove them. We thought…
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This Puzzle Called Life http://box5297.temp.domains/~carrifk7/?p=754 — Read on box5297.temp.domains/~carrifk7/
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Nobody likes discomfort, but life in a fallen world guarantees uncertainty. This puzzle we call life requires it. As James tells us, that God is not only with us “when (we) meet trails of various kinds” but will produce “steadfastness” eventually making us “perfect and complete, lacking in nothing”, not one missing piece (James 1:2-4).…
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It was 1996, and while the Olympic Games were being held in Atlanta, GA, I was teaching 40+ Chinese teenagers in a Soviet-style concrete building with live electric wires running down the halls. It was a hot, June day, and my eager students, usually so quiet I could hear a pin drop, did something that…
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A Time to Mourn http://box5297.temp.domains/~carrifk7/?p=746 — Read on box5297.temp.domains/~carrifk7/
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The teacher in Ecclesiastes tells us there is “a time to mourn” (3:4). But in all reality, life can sometimes feel a lot more like one long mourning period. It seems the longer we live, the more we mourn.
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The wisdom to follow your plan for me Instead of the newest blogging recipe pushed out onto Facebook or Twitter The plan made by you to whom I am “Fearfully and wonderfully made” (Psalm 139:14) and The plan that includes “hope and a future” (Jeremiah 29:11) Whether I ever publish my first book Or see…
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The wisdom to follow your plan for me Instead of the newest blogging recipe pushed out onto Facebook or Twitter The plan made by you to whom I am “Fearfully and wonderfully made” (Psalm 139:14) and The plan that includes “hope and a future” (Jeremiah 29:11) Whether I ever publish my first book Or see…
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It really is hard to believe. Who could have believed the barrage of change we have seen since last Christmas? Sure, we knew it might be a bit crazy with an unknown virus and a U.S. election. But a pandemic? Countries and states shutdown? Protests, violence and destruction? It’s still a bit much to take…
Carried Along 