THE LAST RIVER MILE
Thoughts near the take-out.
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Granted, I really don’t know everything about the complexities surrounding the Jeffrey Epstein trafficking process and the seemingly endless files concerning those associated with him. But the optics right now are really bad, especially for Congress, the Department of Justice, and the Attorney General. For whatever reasons, the United Kingdom was unafraid to arrest a…
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Among people of faith, a commonly heard phrase is “praise God!” Normally I notice it spoken as a result of some favorable outcome, from finding a misplaced phone to hearing that biopsy results are benign. Saying “praise God” signifies gladness that God has done something beneficial for us or for others. There’s absolutely nothing wrong…
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A lot of opinions and stringent points fly around every, and I know I contribute to the swarm. I thought I take a break from it all and just share an old, funny story. (This will be appreciated best by those who have a non-urban background.) In the early years of our marriage my wife…
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It is astounding how much time and effort we human beings can put into keeping God leashed and under our control. Convincing ourselves we are doing the right and righteous thing, we in fact desperately try to domesticate God. I might limit God to the confines of my particular biblical interpretation. Or I can box…
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Along with most of the world I watched Alex Pretti get shot multiple times and I wondered how we got to this point in our nation. How does an American citizen legally carrying a non-brandished firearm get killed while trying to help another person? This comes with a flood of other questions for me. How…
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Big Spring feeds the Current River in the southcentral Missouri Ozark hills. It is the largest spring in the state of Missouri and one of the largest in all of North America. It churns out a staggering 290 million gallons of water a day, bursting forth out of an 80-foot deep hole in the ground.…
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If God is any kind of a reality for you, what is it that matters most to you about God? As I listen to people and as I observe myself, much of what we seem to like best about God revolves around that which God does, whatever that may be. God loves, God saves, God…
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The children are watching this current national dumpster fire. We might like to delude ourselves into believing they are just going about the business of being children, glued to their screens, and oblivious to everything going on. That is purely a delusion. They are watching, they are taking notes, and they are learning. And what…
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I’m a fan of the Netflix series “Stranger Things.” The last (?) episode features one of the characters giving a valedictorian speech at a high school graduation. In it he speaks of “bad chaos” and “good chaos.” One destroys and divides, he says, and the other is fertile turf for something new. The scene is…
THE LAST RIVER MILE 