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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
5 days ago2 min read
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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When the Lightbulb Comes On
Have you ever been in a conversation with a group of people and felt a little lost? Maybe you didn’t know much about the topic being...
pastorourrock
Jan 292 min read
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The Search Engine That Could
How many times a day do we go to Google for the information we believe we need? For the answers to the questions that stump us? For the...
pastorourrock
Jan 222 min read
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What Tips the Scale?
If all things are measured, and surely, in some fashion they are, what tips the scale that, say, makes a good day a great day? What moves...
pastorourrock
Jan 152 min read
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What's Worth Repeating?
Our legal system knows that we humans like to repeat what we hear. More accurately, what we overhear. What we’re told. What gets shared...
pastorourrock
Jan 92 min read
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The Big Secret Isn't
Reveal parties have become all the rage, haven’t they? For a woman, the state of pregnancy usually comes with its own peculiar set of...
pastorourrock
Dec 31, 20242 min read
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Who Would Have Thunk It?
Maybe you’ve heard that said. I knew someone years ago who would say it. Of course, it means that something is so far out of the normal...
pastorourrock
Dec 19, 20242 min read
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Down and Out
It’s that time of year. In this part of the United States, it’s cold. And it’s dark. A lot. And we’re in the slippery slide between...
pastorourrock
Dec 11, 20242 min read
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The Pits We Hit
We’re traveling down a stretch of pavement we don’t drive often. We don’t see it in the road up ahead. If we had, we’d have made an...
pastorourrock
Dec 5, 20242 min read
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The Other Shoe
A curious expression, isn’t it? Waiting for the other shoe to drop . But anyone who’s ever lived in an apartment understands where it...
pastorourrock
Nov 27, 20242 min read
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