Confession

12:18am. A train passes, blowing it’s whistle. I love this sound, in the dark still of the night. It reminds me of childhood, and of being at my great-grandparents house where the train would pass just before dawn… I would listen to it in the quiet morning-dark. It is comforting.

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Explaining myself (Stranger than… something?)

Tuffy wrote:
i don’t know that you can say this isn’t getting it. i think its more along the lines of “i don’t get that.”
I’m going to stand by my original phrasing, but explain it a bit. I’m absolutely in favor of things that encourage people toward prayer. But prayer is, or at least should be, communication [...]

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Confession

Confession: Nonfaced bills are a serious pet peeve of mine. Serious. Pet. Peeve. I received change last night, and every bill was turned a different direction and facing a different way……. what is so hard about facing the bills? WHY is that such a challenge for people? And why does this bother me so much?

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Stranger than… well, something….

I’ll get back to you when I can figure out what this is stranger THAN, though.
 Now, I’m generally in support of most anything that will encourage people towards spirituality and increasing time spent in prayer/Bible study… but I’m just not sure that this is it…. 
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What you’ll find is the “lavalamp prayer application.” The site [...]

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Silence

It is 1am. The house is silent, except for the gentle ticking of the clock and the occasional soft sounds of my dog sleeping beside me. And once again, I listen to the silence. There is too much noise in the world, in my life. Noise is distracting. To be always hearing, always going… how [...]

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