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Who Are You? Who Are You Becoming?
Years ago, when I first started working as a pastor in churches, I asked new people that I met what they did for a living. The question seemed less intrusive than what I considered a more personal question like whether they were married or if they had children. Also, because I was single, I didn’t…
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You Are Dust – BE dust
READINGS In talking about Psalm 23, Cole Arthur Riley states in her book, This Here Flesh: “I find it beautiful that in the face of terror, G-d doesn’t bid us toward courage as we might pereive it. Instead, [G-d] draws us toward fear’s essential sister, rest – a sister who is not meant to replace…
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Who is Me? Thoughts on a Cold Snowy Morning
The morning is cold and snowy even after the sun comes out and the clouds disappear. The snow resembles clouds littered on the ground with cloud detritus hiding our human messes. There’s only so much mess the snow can cover though. Even for those places where the snow is deeper than I am tall. For…
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Ungreat
Ungreat I am not great never aspired to be greater than others… only wanted to be better than I am. ©J.Robin Whitley 10/26/2020
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Compassion as a Way of Life
As a person of faith, I am constantly asking myself what does it mean to live a life of compassion? This time, I decided to also talk to my friends about it as well as researching various words. As you read over our conversations, what would our world be like if we all began having…