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Life is Not Too Short

Posted on by Michael Rose
The following is a piece by a young woman, Jacqueline Warner, just prior to passing away from Cancer. The Valley of the Shadow of Death can be the fertile ground for some profound insights. It can cut through the crap and cliche’s getting to the real heart of life, and provides some deep perspective on…
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Excavating Your True Self

Posted on by Michael Rose
There’s a lot of mystery and often a lot of confusion when we start to speak about one’s “True Self.” Depending upon your religious background, this can be relatively normal, completely bizarre and for some quite dubious. However, in the sense of healthy Christian faith, the pursuit of the authentic self is simply discovering and…
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We ARE Chosen

Posted on by Michael Rose
How many of us remember the ad-hoc choosing of teams in the school yard? “I’ll take Jimmy.”  “I’ll take Jane” and so forth until there is a lone person left and chosen by default.  There were times when I was growing up that I found myself the last to be chosen.  It is an awkward feeling to not…
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