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Influence

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It has been a long while since I have posted anything here. I have been busy completing three years toward my B.A. in English and my senior year is underway. My current class (Creative Writing) has finally given me the space to take off the tight harness of academic writing rules, and it feels SO GOOD!! After reading my first assignment, Mom and Daddy gave it their thumbs up and suggested I make it a blog post, so here it is. It is my story and their story. It's a little longer than my usual posts, but as with everything I have ever posted here, I pray it encourages you to run "up the sunbeam to the sun" (C. S. Lewis). "Follow my example,  as I follow the example of Christ." 1 Corinthians 11:1 NIV I sat above them on the stairs. Looking down through the window-like openings in the partition between the living room and the stairway, I listened to the basketball players, football players, baseball players, wrestlers, track athletes, both the lettermen ...
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The Unwitting Drift and the Way Back

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-- So slow, so easy, the unwitting drift. Eyes all full of the immediate wave . . . and the wave on its heels . . . and all the waves upon waves after that, unaware I'm being taken slowly, surely further from where I should be . . . from where I meant to be.   Father, I want to be well! I say it again and again, trying a new prayer on for size instead of the generic and  inexact   Lord help me!   I know, even as I make it known to God that I want to be well, I need to be more specific still, but it's a place to start, a place to launch, a place to set a new course. I am not sick. I'm just not healthy and fit and ready to rock the heck out of this gloriously gifted life I've been given. I have wanted to be. I have wished I was. I have lamented and cringed in shame and yelled at the reflection in the mirror I don't even recognize as me. I miss me. I am living beneath my privilege. "When he came near, Jesus asked him, 'What do you want me ...
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The Door God Always Opens

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-- "Waiting impatiently for entrance, the boy glanced up at the arch. Words were chiseled in the old, moss covered stones:    WELCOME ALL WHO HUNT.  . . . And so the boy escaped from the perilous Enchanted City because he was a hunter at heart and hunters always find more than they know. " Tales of the Kingdom by David & Karen Mains I wish I'd written that last line. "he was a hunter at heart and hunters always find more than they know. " It rings a beautiful, crystal clear bell in my heart.  Like a tuning fork sounding the note you should tune to, a note you recognize, this resonates with the ring of truth.  So where have I heard that before . . .   Ah yes, I remember, it was my Jesus who said, "For everyone who asks receives; he who seeks finds; and to him who knocks, the door will be opened." Luke 11:10 NIV Was Jesus saying that every door we knock on will be opened?  I think that would be answered with a resounding "NO!"  ...
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