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Tag: Jesus

  • Brokenness

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    This morning this klutso inadvertently bumped into a painted bracket fungus with a pastoral scene hanging on the wall. It fell to the floor, breaking into three pieces . . . Arrrrrgh! Bought four decades ago, the painting of an actual Central Square, NY barn built in 1830 evokes fond memories of an earlier era…

  • From Our Home to Yours @ Christmas

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    Jesus . . . born once . . . that we may be born twice Keep Looking Up . . . His Best is Yet to Come!

  • Being Jesus

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    Today a friend posted on their blog (gratefuladdict) the note below. Someone . . . prompted by love’s pure compassion . . . placed this note on the van windshield a homeless person was living in. This note simultaneously blessed and convicted me . . . blessed, aware of my undeserved abundance . . .…

  • Sunrise/Sunset

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    Fred D
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    Science attributes a sunset’s red and pink hues to 2 factors: The distance sunlight has to travel. The amount of atmospheric particles the sun’s light must travel through. During sunrise and sunset the sun’s rays must pass through up to 40 percent more atmospheric area with a greater number of gas, water droplet, dust, and…

  • Making a Difference

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    Who are the people who have made a positive difference in your life? Take a moment to answer these two sets of questions: Name the last 3 recipients of the Presidential Medal of Freedom Award Name the last 3 Nobel Peace prize winners Name the last 3 Pulitzer Prize winners I scored zero . .…

  • Great Smoky Mountains Sunrise

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    Fred D
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    Three rugged timbers on a hillside at sunrise, reminiscent of a Sonrise 2,000 years ago that forever vanquished death and sealed my salvation. “Where, O death, is your victory? Where, O death. is your sting?” I Corinthians 15:55 Keep Looking Up . . . His best is yet to come!

  • Good Friday

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    Fred D
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    Today is Good Friday, and the church marquee reads, “When He was on the cross, you were on His mind”. I’ll never comprehend how Divinity’s infinite love willing chose to pursue my sullied mortality to an excruciating death on a cross. I can only accept it and forever praise Him for it. At breakfast with…

  • New Year Resolutions

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    Fred D
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    After nearly 8 decades of failed New year resolutions, I’ve finally arrived at one that works for me . . . Leave the past in the past . . . the future in the future . . . and live life one-day-at-a-time today holding tightly the hand of the only One who knows all three,…

  • The Gift of the One

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    Fred D
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    From our Smoky Mountain home up on the mountain – down in the ‘holler – by the ‘crick’ . . . to wherever you and yours may be this Christmas . . . we wish you the Gift of the One who left Heaven for earth 2,000 years ago to bring “Peace on earth, good…

  • Mind-Boggling Travel

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    Last week, some 5,000 miles north-by-northwest, found me gliding through freshly fallen snow. Shortly thereafter, some 35,000 ft. above terra-firma, found me zooming through the skies at 600 mph in high-speed-aluminum tubing. This afternoon, some 2,000 ft. up in the Great Smoky Mountains, found me shuffling through fall’s fallen leaves . . .  fictional Star…