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Backfire or Boomerang?
If we’ve been around at least a decade or so on this good earth, we know what it’s like to have our plans unravel and our projects fall...
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6 days ago2 min read


Where's the Rub?
Okay, let’s play for a bit, shall we? We all know what or who rubs us the wrong way, don’t we? We are well aware of the friction we feel...
pastorourrock
Jul 22 min read


Space Exploration
Perhaps it is so as it was scripted for the opening of the iconic television series Star Trek … that space is the final frontier. This...
pastorourrock
Jun 182 min read


In a Different Light
It doesn’t happen all that often but when it does, it’s an expansive experience. Sure, sometimes we’d prefer not to expand… or to be...
pastorourrock
Jun 112 min read


Making Waves
Summer is approaching and for many of us that might bring to mind thoughts of water. And not just drinking more water in the heat of the...
pastorourrock
May 282 min read


Wailing Within
A six-year-old, separated from the adult who once held him in tow but who veered down a different aisle in the wide and wild world of...
pastorourrock
May 212 min read


Clear as Mud
Irony. Don’t you love it? Humor with a bite. So it is with the expression “clear as mud.” Words that don’t logically fit together. We all...
pastorourrock
May 142 min read


Joint Pain
Knees. Wrists. Shoulders. Hips. All those places in our bodies that are prone to slip and slide and groan and grind. Potential...
pastorourrock
May 72 min read


Questions That Haunt Us
The year was 1967. Television watchers were tuning into the Ed Sullivan Show, among other vintage favorites. During his tenure on air...
pastorourrock
May 12 min read


To Keep or Break the Silence?
A person dies. Perhaps death came suddenly. A tragedy. The spouse, family members are grieving, in shock. The news ripples through the...
pastorourrock
Apr 172 min read


Downward Mobility
Who comes up with this stuff? How did it get to be accepted into our everyday language? And when did we decide it is something to be...
pastorourrock
Apr 92 min read


What's Better Than a New Do?
Spring is sprouting signs of new life all around us! We’re seeing flowers and shrubs popping open and recently birthed calves wobbling...
pastorourrock
Apr 22 min read


What Goes On...
…isn’t always easy to get off. Ok, not clothing. Not even grease, grit, or grime. Instead, all that emotional stuff that gets piled onto...
pastorourrock
Mar 262 min read


Living Out of Whack
We receive a Christmas card or a birthday gift from someone who appreciates us. That person wasn’t on our Christmas card list or on our...
pastorourrock
Mar 192 min read


Breaking Up: Hard or Not?
In days gone by, we couldn’t begin count on one hand the number of times we’d be on a mobile phone hearing the comment from the other...
pastorourrock
Mar 122 min read


How Free Can We Be?
Off the grid. That’s what people say about themselves when they seek a completely self-sufficient lifestyle. No public utilities. No...
pastorourrock
Mar 52 min read


Giving Without Asking
“May I give you a hug?” a third grader asked recently. What a kind and thoughtful question! Personally, I cannot imagine not wanting to...
pastorourrock
Feb 262 min read


Split Seams
Little else in life is as embarrassing as having an article of clothing rip open while in public. Janet Jackson will long be remembered...
pastorourrock
Feb 192 min read


It's a Consuming Life!
So, there was this football game this past Sunday evening, although it wasn’t much of a game, and we often get together with friends or...
pastorourrock
Feb 122 min read


Got Labels?
Have we had the dubious honor of learning how others think of us? “You’re such a princess!” someone might have offered. Or “You...
pastorourrock
Feb 52 min read
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